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Garwood Verna Rebecca Sanders Paul Rozanski Velma Achsah Sanders Carl Burnham Brooks 1447 Margery Legh Maynard Ward Sanders ~1809 - 1875 Rebecca Holliday 66 66 1276 - 1321 Humphrey De Bohun 45 45 Elizabeth Cokayne 1778 George Chapman Living Cyrus 1858 - 1938 A. Marion Buffington 80 80 Mary Taylor >1858 - 1869 Margaret Buffington 11 11 1459 - 1524/1525 John Warburton 1864 - 1948 Lewis Lincoln 84 84 Anna Bell Bays 1463 - 1525 Jane Stanley 62 62 Margaretha John Dowden Anna Allgaierin John Nicholas "Jack" , Jr. Sanders Margery De Badlesmere Polly Rebecca "Becky" Sanders Ralph Wetzel Sanders James Lee Sanders Randal Lee Zack Janet Mary Zack Ralph Boyd Zack Lyle Eric Zack Eibhear Scot Maria Cleary Daniel Westergaard Meagan Emily Westergaard Living Schaffer Yakalene Ross Quinten Ross Zack Hans Allgaierin Kinsey Zack 1625 - >1660 Baron William Ewing 35 35 Thomas Edward Anderson Sru Susan Elizabeth Anderson 1630 - >1660 Eliza Milford 30 30 Paula Kathryn Anderson Alan Eugene "Beaver" Anderson Maud De Badlesmere Eldon Curtis Anderson Gary Owen Anderson Karen Ruth Ringler Valerie Kay Anderson Stephanie Lynn Anderson Living Stump Mark Greider Justin Mark Greider Andrew Croft Greider Ann Marie Callan Kathryn Lynn Anderson Margaret De Badlesmere William Ewing Travis Eldon Anderson Living Salmons Joyce Grace Schumacher Easru Amy Elizabeth Anderson Nicholas Alan Anderson Michael Lynn Hoffmeister Kevin Louis Hoffmeister Kristi Lynn Hoffmeister Susan Denise Hansen Giles De Badlesmere Lisa Laub Austin Thomas Anderson Evan Coy Anderson Goadheal John Bradbury Michelle Anderson 1928 - 1987 Roy Shafer 58 58 Living Fizer Living Shafer Living Larch 1870 - 1938 Sheldon Peter Shafer 68 68 Eleanor de Mowbray 1869 Eliza Susan Lowry Howard Malcom Cassel Niul Douglas Howard Cassel Dorthy Merle Cassel Kailegh Jae Cassel Samual Dempsey Brodie Samantha Dempsey Samuel Wayne II Dempsey 1830 - >1910 David Shafer 79 79 Debra Susan Grasso Blanche de Mowbray Kendal Edward Grasso Scota Michael Bruce Grasso Sharon Elaine Grasso Ronald Marvin Parker April Michelle Parker Jessica Louise Parker Paul David Gresham Graham Thomas Gresham Dennis Beard Chelsea Marelle Benson Rachel Owings Finius Farsa Thomas Abbott Margaret Ann Trueblood Ellen Louise Trueblood Eric Charles Trueblood Carla Beard Lory Beard Josie Ann Trueblood James Wallace Trueblood Sandra Taylor Bryant Trueblood Victoria Elizabeth Trueblood Boath Farsa Richard Owings Paul Marx Andrew Marx Otto Reineisch Daniel Reineisch Michael Reineisch Naomi Carol Louise Fredrick Theodore Dunaway John Delroy Schneider Magog John Delroy III Schneider Henry Owings 1779 Patience Clay Blake Robert Schneider Kyle Alan Schneider Galen Fredrick Schneider Hilary Rose Schneider Georgi 1803 John Shaver 1811 Mary Cox William Cheney 1775 Jacob Shaver Ann Hall Marion Sue Ruth Owings Stephen John Sanders Marla Sue Sanders Robin Ann Sanders Pamala Renee Steth Renee Sanders Elijah Nicholas Sanders Japheth Noah Benjamin Sanders Michael Evan Vincent Jennifer Lynn Vincent Michael Jason Vincent Robert Owings Douglas Lebsack Lauren Ashley Lebsack Robert Boyd Hull Katheryn Elizabeth Hull Margaret Rebecca Hull Noah Robert Ted Hull John Sanders Hull Dunk Porterfield John Chacos Stephanie Kathrine Chacos Living Schaffer Emily Elizabeth Chacos Jacoqueline Lisa Cate Nicholas Scott Hull Holly Locke Lamech Kristen Nicole Joanne Lee Helms Julie Ann Sanders Scott Ralph Sanders David Jeffery Sanders Richard John Sanders Samuel Owings Kevin Lee Sanders JoEllen Sanders Neil Ward Sanders Living ? Michael Dean Probst Annie Jo Probst Kimberly Ann Deaton Kaytlyn JeanAnn Sanders Nicholas Scott Sanders Lori Ann Fiala Elizabeth Ann Sanders Joshua Owings Mathew Quinn Sanders Christine Margaret Andrews Methusaleh Zachary John Sanders Vicki Lynn Trindle Linda Sue Sindy Sue Sanders Melinda Lee Sanders Todd James Sanders Larry Main McKenzie Main 1735 Mary Odell Thaddeus James Main Enoch Keven Myrna Brooks Ryan Louis Anderson Ray Siler 1155 - 1214 VIII Alfonso 59 59 Eleanor Mathilda Von Ringleheim 0836 - 0869 Otto 33 33 Hedwige 1737 John Odell Jared Earca 0816 - 0866 Ludolph 50 50 Oda 0786 - 0844 Bruno 58 58 Oda 0756 - 0813 Bruno 57 57 Hasalda Wittikind I Bruno D. 0994 I William Adelaide Of Anjou Cainan 1742 Walter Odell II Fulk D. ~0965 II Boso Constance Of Provence D. ~0949 Rotbaude I d'Angelca N.N. Of Aquitaine D. 1035 I Robert Harlotte De Falais 0982 - 1017 Judith Of Rennes 35 35 II Richard Enos Elijah Simms 1744 Elizabeth Odell 0940 - 0987 I Geoffrey 47 47 0950 - 0978 Adelaide De Vermandois 28 28 0920 - 0958 II Fulk 38 38 Gerberge Of The Gatinais 0888 - 0942 I Fulk 54 54 Roscilla Garnier D. 0888 Ingelar Seth Adele De Gatinais Geoffrey 1745 Richard Odell 1752 Isaac Sowards Isaac registered to pay taxes in Greenbrier Co., VA, 1796. A census listed Isaac as head of household in Giles Co., VA, 1810. Sowards, Isaac Greenbrier Co., VA NPH Co. Tax Lists 1783-1786 Isaac Sowards II lived on Peters Mountain and came to Fayette Co., OH about 1812. Vol. A, page 116, 7 March 1812 from Thomas H Richardson of Pickway, OH to Isaac Sowards, $200.00 for 100 acres in Fayette Co., OH on Paint Creek. 1792 SR R Bk.S3 pg 245, 300 acres for 30 shillings sterling (recorded 31 August 1795) on the foot of Peters Mt. where John Dickerson and said Sowards now live known by the name of Bowmans Camp. Grants 33 p. 121-122 23 June 1798 Greenbrier Co., VA Deed Bk. 6, Pg. 445 Isaac Sowards and Elizabeth to John Dickerson for 5 shillings 300 acres on Peters Mt. (recorded in 1817 ?) 1810 Census Giles Co., Va Males (2) 1-10 Thomas 1803 Solomon 1802, (2) 10-16 Isaac James 1795 and Griffith 1799, (1) 45 up Isaac 1765: Females (2) 1-10 unknown, (1) 10-16 unknown, (1) 17-26 Sophia (2) 45 up Elizabeth and one could be his mother Milescent who was living in 1803 when the will was recorded. (Giles Co. was formed in 1806 from Montgomery, Monroe, Tazewell, Craig, Mercer and Wythe). Tertulle Petronille D. >0853 Hugh 0765 - 0836 Hugh 71 71 Aba 1642 Maria Michaelse Vandervoort Catherine Pabenham Elizabeth Plantagenet 0901 - 0962 Charles Constantine 61 61 Teutberge D. 0925 Garnier 1746 Rignal Odell Teutberge Thibaud Richard I Thierry D. 0826 II Childebrand Adam Dunne Of Autun D. 0768 I Nivelson I Childebrand Rolande 0920 - 0968 Robert 48 48 1748 Talbott Odell Rennes Adelaide Of Burgundy II Herbert Leigarde Of France Eve D. 0798 Emma Gerold Hnabi Houching D. 0709 Godefroy Balthazar Fey 1652 - 1725 James William Beall 73 73 1675 Charles Clay 1738 Rachel Vanderford SeeNotes Liegarde (Hildebrante) Of France D. 1026 II Richard 1736 James Vanderford 1741 Araminta "Minta" Vanderford 1658 Claertje Michaelse Vandervoort 1572 - 1665 Joris Jansen Rapalje 93 93 1662 Elizabeth M. Paulus Vandervoort "Dux" Hnabi Houching D. 1972 Elsie Mae Reynolds 1133 - 1189 II Henry 56 56 Henry II ruled over an empire which stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. One of the strongest, most energetic and imaginative rulers, Henry was the inheritor of three dynasties who had acquired Aquitaine by marriage; his charters listed them: 'King of the English, Duke of the Normans and Aquitanians and Count of the Angevins'. The King spent only 13 years of his reign in England; the other 21 years were spent on the continent in his territories in what is now France. Henry's rapid movements in carrying out his dynastic responsibilities astonished the French king, who noted 'now in England, now in Normandy, he must fly rather than travel by horse or ship'.

By 1158, Henry had restored to the Crown some of the lands and royal power lost by Stephen; Malcom IV of Scotland was compelled to return the northern counties. Locally chosen sheriffs were changed into royally appointed agents charged with enforcing the law and collecting taxes in the counties. Personally interested in government and law, Henry made use of juries and re-introduced the sending of justices (judges) on regular tours of the country to try cases for the Crown. His legal reforms have led him to be seen as the founder of English Common Law.

Henry's disagreements with the Archbishop of Canterbury (the king's former chief adviser), Thomas à Becket, over Church-State relations ended in Becket's murder in 1170 and a papal interdict on England. Family disputes over territorial ambitions almost wrecked the king's achievements. Henry died in France in 1189, at war with his son Richard, who had joined forces with King Philip of France to attack Normandy. 1006 - 1060 I Henry 54 54 0982 - 1017 Judith of Brittany 35 35 1113 - 1151 Geoffrey V "Plantagenet" 38 38 Plantagenet, surname, originally nickname, of the English royal house of Anjou or the Angevin dynasty, founded by Geoffrey IV, count of Anjou (1113-51), husband of Matilda (1102-67), daughter of King Henry I of England. The name is derived from the Latin planta ("sprig") and genista ("broom plant"), in reference to the sprig that Geoffrey always wore in his cap. Reigning from 1154 to 1485, the Plantagenet kings, in the main line of descent, were Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II; through the house of Lancaster, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI; and through the house of York, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. He was married to Queen Matilda of England on 3 Apr 1127 in London, England. 1103 - 1167 Matilda 64 64 1079 - 1118 Matilda Of Scotland 39 39 1070 - 1135 I Henry 65 65 1092 - 1143 King V Fulk 51 51 D. 1126 Erembourg Helais 1024 - >1075 Anne Of Kiev 51 51 27 MAR 972 - 1031 II Robert Living ? 0986 - 1032 Constance Of Provence 46 46 Living Smith Eliab Simms William D. Simms 0895 - 16 JUN 956 Hugh Magnus 0866 - 15 JUN 923 I Robert SeeNotes - >0931 Beatrix Of Vermandois 1758 - 1831 Thomas Simms 73 73 James Simms 1016 Edward " The Exile" SeeNotes Agatha Of Hungary 1680 - 1761 Sarah Pearce 81 81 0932 - 0996 I Richard 64 64 D. 0465 Eogan O'Neill 0989 - 1016 Edmund "Ironside" 27 27 When Athelstan died without immediate successors, his half brother Edmund successfully suppressed rebellions by the Mercian Danes. Edmund I was murdered at a feast in his own hall, at the age of 25 in 946, after only seven years on the throne, and his brother Edred succeeded him. William Simms Sarah Simms 0943 - 0975 Edgar "The Peaceful" 32 32 0920 - 0946 Edmund "The Magnificent" 26 26 Agnes Samples 0849 - 0899 Alfred The Great 50 50 Born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849, Alfred was the fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons. At their father's behest and by mutual agreement, Alfred's elder brothers succeeded to the kingship in turn, rather than endanger the kingdom by passing it to under-age children at a time when the country was threatened by worsening Viking raids from Denmark.

Since the 790s, the Vikings had been using fast mobile armies, numbering thousands of men embarked in shallow-draught longships, to raid the coasts and inland waters of England for plunder. Such raids were evolving into permanent Danish settlements; in 867, the Vikings seized York and established their own kingdom in the southern part of Northumbria. The Vikings overcame two other major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, East Anglia and Mercia, and their kings were either tortured to death or fled. Finally, in 870 the Danes attacked the only remaining independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Wessex, whose forces were commanded by King Aethelred and his younger brother Alfred. At the battle of Ashdown in 871, Alfred routed the Viking army in a fiercely fought uphill assault. However, further defeats followed for Wessex and Alfred's brother died.

As king of Wessex at the age of 21, Alfred (reigned 871-99) was a strongminded but highly strung battle veteran at the head of remaining resistance to the Vikings in southern England. In early 878, the Danes led by King Guthrum seized Chippenham in Wiltshire in a lightning strike and used it as a secure base from which to devastate Wessex. Local people either surrendered or escaped (Hampshire people fled to the Isle of Wight), and the West Saxons were reduced to hit and run attacks seizing provisions when they could. With only his royal bodyguard, a small army of thegns (the king's followers) and Aethelnoth earldorman of Somerset as his ally, Alfred withdrew to the Somerset tidal marshes in which he had probably hunted as a youth. (It was during this time that Alfred, in his preoccupation with the defence of his kingdom, allegedly burned some cakes which he had been asked to look after; the incident was a legend dating from early twelfth century chroniclers.)

A resourceful fighter, Alfred reassessed his strategy and adopted the Danes' tactics by building a fortified base at Athelney in the Somerset marshes and summoning a mobile army of men from Wiltshire, Somerset and part of Hampshire to pursue guerrilla warfare against the Danes. In May 878, Alfred's army defeated the Danes at the battle of Edington. According to his contemporary biographer Bishop Asser, 'Alfred attacked the whole pagan army fighting ferociously in dense order, and by divine will eventually won the victory, made great slaughter among them, and pursued them to their fortress (Chippenham) ... After fourteen days the pagans were brought to the extreme depths of despair by hunger, cold and fear, and they sought peace'. This unexpected victory proved to be the turning point in Wessex's battle for survival.

Realising that he could not drive the Danes out of the rest of England, Alfred concluded peace with them in the treaty of Wedmore. King Guthrum was converted to Christianity with Alfred as godfather and many of the Danes returned to East Anglia where they settled as farmers. In 886, Alfred negotiated a partition treaty with the Danes, in which a frontier was demarcated along the Roman Watling Street and northern and eastern England came under the jurisdiction of the Danes - an area known as 'Danelaw'. Alfred therefore gained control of areas of West Mercia and Kent which had been beyond the boundaries of Wessex. To consolidate alliances against the Danes, Alfred married one of his daughters, Aethelflaed, to the ealdorman of Mercia -Alfred himself had married Eahlswith, a Mercian noblewoman - and another daughter, Aelfthryth, to the count of Flanders, a strong naval power at a time when the Vikings were settling in eastern England.

The Danish threat remained, and Alfred reorganised the Wessex defences in recognition that efficient defence and economic prosperity were interdependent. First, he organised his army (the thegns, and the existing militia known as the fyrd) on a rota basis, so he could raise a 'rapid reaction force' to deal with raiders whilst still enabling his thegns and peasants to tend their farms.

Second, Alfred started a building programme of well-defended settlements across southern England. These were fortified market places ('borough' comes from the Old English burh, meaning fortress); by deliberate royal planning, settlers received plots and in return manned the defences in times of war. (Such plots in London under Alfred's rule in the 880s shaped the streetplan which still exists today between Cheapside and the Thames.) This obligation required careful recording in what became known as 'the Burghal Hidage', which gave details of the building and manning of Wessex and Mercian burhs according to their size, the length of their ramparts and the number of men needed to garrison them. Centred round Alfred's royal palace in Winchester, this network of burhs with strongpoints on the main river routes was such that no part of Wessex was more than 20 miles from the refuge of one of these settlements. Together with a navy of new fast ships built on Alfred's orders, southern England now had a defence in depth against Danish raiders.

Alfred's concept of kingship extended beyond the administration of the tribal kingdom of Wessex into a broader context. A religiously devout and pragmatic man who learnt Latin in his late thirties, he recognised that the general deterioration in learning and religion caused by the Vikings' destruction of monasteries (the centres of the rudimentary education network) had serious implications for rulership. For example, the poor standards in Latin had led to a decline in the use of the charter as an instrument of royal government to disseminate the king's instructions and legislation. In one of his prefaces, Alfred wrote 'so general was its [Latin] decay in England that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their rituals in English or translate a letter from Latin into English ... so few that I cannot remember a single one south of the Thames when I came to the throne.'

To improve literacy, Alfred arranged, and took part in, the translation (by scholars from Mercia) from Latin into Anglo-Saxon of a handful of books he thought it 'most needful for men to know, and to bring it to pass ... if we have the peace, that all the youth now in England ... may be devoted to learning'. These books covered history, philosophy and Gregory the Great's 'Pastoral Care' (a handbook for bishops), and copies of these books were sent to all the bishops of the kingdom. Alfred was patron of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (which was copied and supplemented up to 1154), a patriotic history of the English from the Wessex viewpoint designed to inspire its readers and celebrate Alfred and his monarchy.

Like other West Saxon kings, Alfred established a legal code; he assembled the laws of Offa and other predecessors, and of the kingdoms of Mercia and Kent, adding his own administrative regulations to form a definitive body of Anglo-Saxon law. 'I ... collected these together and ordered to be written many of them which our forefathers observed, those which I liked; and many of those which I did not like I rejected with the advice of my councillors ... For I dared not presume to set in writing at all many of my own, because it was unknown to me what would please those who should come after us ... Then I ... showed those to all my councillors, and they then said that they were all pleased to observe them' (Laws of Alfred, c.885-99).

By the 890s, Alfred's charters and coinage (which he had also reformed, extending its minting to the burhs he had founded) referred to him as 'king of the English', and Welsh kings sought alliances with him. Alfred died in 899, aged 50, and was buried in Winchester, the burial place of the West Saxon royal family.

By stopping the Viking advance and consolidating his territorial gains, Alfred had started the process by which his successors eventually extended their power over the other Anglo-Saxon kings; the ultimate unification of Anglo-Saxon England was to be led by Wessex. It is for his valiant defence of his kingdom against a stronger enemy, for securing peace with the Vikings and for his farsighted reforms in the reconstruction of Wessex and beyond, that Alfred - alone of all the English kings and queens - is known as 'the Great'. 1122 - 1204 Eleanore Of Aquitane 82 82 Women had few rights in the Middle Ages. They were expected to obey their fathers and, after they married, their husbands. Even wealthy noblewomen had little control over their own destinies. They were treated like pawns on a marital chessboard, to be handed-- together with their estates--from father to groom. One noblewoman who started out as a pawn but managed to become one of the most powerful persons of her day was Eleanor of Aquitaine, King John's mother.

In 1137, when Eleanor was fifteen, her father, the Duke of Aquitaine, died. With an inheritance that included nearly half of southern France, the teenage heiress soon caught the attention of the French king, who, like most medieval monarchs, viewed marriage as a way to gain territory and power. Thus, Eleanor's vast landholdings made her the ideal match for the heir to the French throne, the future Louis VII. Just one month after she was forced to marry Louis, he succeeded his father as king. Eleanor spent 15 years as his queen. Then, in 1152, Louis divorced her for falling to fulfill a medieval queen's main duty: producing a son to inherit the throne.

The newly single Eleanor was hounded by fortune hunters. She knew she had to remarry, and quickly. But this time she would choose the groom. He was Henry Plantagenet, soon to be King Henry II of England.
Unlike many medieval kings, Henry gave his queen important responsibilities. While it was not unusual for barons to entrust their wives with running their estates when they were absent, Henry entrusted Eleanor with running the entire kingdom for him on his frequent trips away from England.

Eleanor and Henry had eight children, including five sons. In time, their marriage soured, and Eleanor moved to one of her French estates. There she became a patroness of troubadours (wandering musicians who sang about romantic love). In 1173, she helped her sons rebel against their father. After crushing the revolt, Henry placed Eleanor under house arrest, where she stayed until his death 16 years later.

Following her release, Eleanor reentered the political fray. She helped her son Richard seize power, and then governed England for him while he was away crusading in the Middle East. After Richard's death, Eleanor assisted John, her youngest son, in securing the throne. She remained one of King John's closest advisors until her death in 1204.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was born into a society that gave women little power. Yet, she managed to attain great influence and to shape the political events of her day in decisive ways.
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The 12th century was a long time ago. Looking back at it is a little like gazing at the clear starry sky of a winter night. Most of what is there escapes us, what we do see is beautiful and engrossing but hard to make sense of, and even the brightest stars remain shrouded in mystery. To the most probing telescope, they reveal but few of their secrets, and often only the most superficial ones. Among the stars of the 12th century, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine by birth, queen of France then queen of England by marriage, certainly shines brightest. But how much do we really know about her?
Enough to make her the subject of a biography, British author Alison Weir believed, in spite of the people who warned her that "it would be almost impossible for a biographer to do justice to a woman who lived eight centuries ago." Perhaps she should have listened. Indeed, we know almost nothing of Eleanor as a person, of what she looked like, of how she lived her daily life, let alone of what she thought and felt. All we know a little about -- and what incomplete, patchy knowledge it is -- is where she went and what she did as a public figure, generally in connection with the actions of the men in her life: her two successive husbands, Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and her ill-fated sons, particularly Richard I and King John. As a result, Weir's book tends to read like a survey of Anglo-French high politics in the 1100s, albeit one with a special emphasis on Eleanor.
This is not meant as a reproach. What choice did the author have, especially since she decided, commendably, to base her study mostly on contemporary sources, and to treat the legends and rumors already surrounding the queen in her lifetime for what they are?
Besides, Weir does a pretty decent job of recounting what we know of the events in which Eleanor was directly or indirectly involved: the disastrous Second Crusade, during which she created scandal by spending a little too much time alone with her uncle Raymond of Antioch; the murder of Thomas a Becket, which turned that proud and worldly man into an instant saint; the ransoming of Richard the Lionhearted, her favorite son, for whom she traveled to Germany in the dead of winter at age 72.
But carefully reading and reporting what contemporary sources have to say about her subject is only part of the historian's craft. Next should come an effort to establish a context, then an attempt to understand what it all may have meant to the actors and what it may mean to us. Here Weir fails. Whatever general context she provides for her narrative is sketchy, rather outdated, and sometimes inaccurate. As for interpretation, there is none. Wars are won, then lost, treaties are sworn, then broken, marriages are arranged, then annulled, revolts break out, then are crushed, then break out again, and no pattern emerges, no deeper understanding of medieval politics or even of why we should care at all about Eleanor, her husbands, her children, their deeds and their misdeeds. Weir does repeat over and over that her heroine was a remarkable woman, but we never do see or feel this alleged greatness. We never get the vaguest sense of what it may have been like to be Eleanor of Aquitaine. What's the point, then, of a biography?
Weir would have been more successful, I suspect, if she had been a little less high-minded. Trying to be scholarly and rigorous, she ended up defeating her biographical purpose. Perhaps she should have taken the lower road instead. For Eleanor's life is the stuff that trashy bestsellers are made of: prodigious wealth and commensurate greed, passionate love and no less passionate hatred, family dysfunction on a continental scale, adultery, incest, messy divorce, kidnapping, mysterious disappearance, and murder (in the cathedral!). Had she shamelessly exploited this tabloid potential, even at the cost of using some imagination to fill in the many holes of the story as we have it, Weir might have written a more evocative biography and conveyed a better sense of the character of Eleanor and of the world she lived in and helped fashion.
So, if you want the mere facts of the queen's life, by all means, read Weir's book. But if you'd rather catch a glimpse of what it may have been like to be Eleanor of Aquitaine, rent the video of "The Lion in Winter." It's an anachronistic campfest, all right, but I can't help thinking that in some weird way it contains precisely the kind of truth that's missing from Weir's book. Perhaps it's Katharine Hepburn's performance. After all, don't we often learn about faraway stars by looking at those closer to us?
------------------------------------------------------ 1722 Mary Vanderford 1207 - 1272 III Henry 65 65 0950 - 0980 Farquhard 30 30 1625 - >1655 Alexander Beall 30 30 1217 - 1291 Eleanore Of Provence 74 74 1167 - 1216 John Lackland 48 48 King John, also known as Lackland or Softsword, was the youngest son of Henry II. Between 1200 and 1204 he fought increasingly losing campaigns to hold onto his Continental possessions. In England he was responsible for refining the government and was instrumental in the spread of literacy. King John, despite his bad reputation, was possibly one of the most learned of all the English kings. He was a keen historian and lawgiver who enjoyed nothing more than to stand in judgement on his peoples. This keen sense of involvement in the running of the kingdom no doubt helped antagonise his baronage, who quite rightly thought that their many privileges were under threat. Magna Carta was the work of an admittedly unwilling King John and his impressive legal advisors, not the rag tag army of discontented barons who faced him at Runnymede. In 1216 when faced by the invasion of a French army he refused to fight them on the coast as, we are told, his history books well reminded him of the fate of a previous king in 1066 who did just that! John's refusal to risk all on one decisive battle led to the long civil war of 1216-8. He died of dysentery at Newark in October 1216 after the infamous loss of his treasure in the Wash.

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Medieval rulers led lives that rival those of any of today's soap opera characters. A look at King John's family explains why this English monarch behaved in ways that sometimes helped his subjects and sometimes hurt them. As soap opera fans know, even villains sometimes do good!
John's father, King Henry II, was often unfaithful to John's mother, Eleanor. Their unhappiness increased when four of their sons survived to adulthood. Who would succeed to the throne? The official heir, young Henry, disagreed with his father's policies, and his brothers Richard, Geoffrey, and John also wanted to rule. John, the youngest, stood the least chance and was mockingly called "John Lackland."
Eleanor supported her sons when, in an alliance with the French king, they tried to overthrow their father. A bitter Henry II commissioned a painting showing four eaglets attacking their parent, the smallest one viciously poised to peck out the adult bird's eyes. Henry II believed his youngest son John would "in the end insult [him and his family] more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others."
Henry II was correct. Soon after Richard became king, John began to plot against him. When Richard left on a crusade to Jerusalem, John placed his own followers in positions of power. When the king was captured as he was making his way home, his brother pretended to raise a ransom for his release. Actually, he tried to bribe Richard's captor to hold him in prison longer! The money was raised, nevertheless, and Richard returned to England only to die five years later, of wounds received on the battlefield in Normandy. In May of 1199--just one month after Richard's death, John was crowned king of England. Aware that many in his realm still saw his nephew Arthur as the legitimate heir to the throne, John eliminated this rival-according to a contemporary account, John himself committed the foul deed. Early in life, "John Lackland" had learned to distrust anyone, even family members, who could challenge him.
Despite his suspicious nature and hot temper, John could also act wisely. He expanded the civil service system begun by Henry II that authorized local sheriffs, justices of the peace, and coroners to maintain the law and resolve disputes. John frequently attended trials and even settled difficult points of law. Commoners also sought justice from John, knowing that the king, when "moved to pity," could overrule the judges. King John was fair-minded and merciful when dealing with powerless people: Once, he spared the life of a young boy who had thrown a stone that accidentally killed another child. John's other accomplishments included granting self-government to growing cities, establishing a uniform system of weights and measures, creating a royal navy, and requiring government offices to keep formal archives.
Because John needed money to fight France, he sometimes abused the court system. He did not oppose people "buying" a not-guilty verdict, and had rich people falsely accused of crimes just to collect their fines. John even accepted bribes from those scheming to marry wealthy heiresses or become the guardians of rich orphans. John's barons resented his policy of forcing them to pay frequent taxes ("scutages") instead of supplying soldiers for the campaigns against France. As a result, there were many defeats, and John earned another scornful nickname, "John Softsword."
When King John disagreed with Pope Innocent III about who should hold the distinguished post of Archbishop of Canterbury, the pope placed England under "interdict." This meant that churches were closed throughout the country, and priests there could no longer perform baptisms or marriages, hear confession, or bury anyone in consecrated ground. Devout people began to fear damnation. Yet, King John would not change his mind even when the pope excommunicated him. "John Lackland" respected earthly power more than he feared the judgment of the church. King John finally accepted the pope's candidate for archbishop, but only because his excommunication excused the royal barons from supporting him. This situation naturally benefited his enemy, the French King.
Heavy taxes and corrupt courts displeased most of John's barons, but fear for their families may have motivated the 40 who would confront him at Runnymede. John had recently killed 28 hostages, all family members of rebellious Welsh chieftains. As a result, many barons were reluctant to send the king the hostages he now demanded to guarantee their loyalty. Thus, "family matters," as much as the desire for power and wealth, led King John and his barons to their fateful meeting at Runnymede.
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He was a King of England. Reigned 1199-1216. Signed Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede. His reign saw renewal of war with Phillip II Augustus of France to whom he has lost several continental possesions including Normandy by 1205. He came into conflict with his Barons and was forced to Sign the Magna Carta. His later repudiation of the charter led to the first barons war 1215-17 during which John died. Burke says he was born in 1160. King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester. He was married to Isabella TAILLEFER on 16 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. 1028 - 1087 William I "The Conquerer" 59 59 Born around 1028, William was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert I of Normandy, and Herleve (also known as Arlette), daughter of a tanner in Falaise. Known as 'William the Bastard' to his contemporaries, his illegitimacy shaped his career when he was young. On his father's death in 1035, William was recognised by his family as the heir - an exception to the general rule that illegitimacy barred succession. His great uncle looked after the Duchy during William's minority, and his overlord, King Henry I of France, knighted him at the age of 15.

From 1047 onwards, William successfully dealt with rebellion inside Normandy involving his kinsmen and threats from neighbouring nobles, including attempted invasions by his former ally King Henry I of France in 1054 (the French forces were defeated at the Battle of Mortemer) and 1057. William's military successes and reputation helped him to negotiate his marriage to Mathilda, daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders. At the time of his invasion of England, William was a very experienced and ruthless military commander, ruler and administrator who had unified Normandy and inspired fear and respect outside his duchy.

William's claim to the English throne was based on his assertion that, in 1051, Edward the Confessor had promised him the throne (he was a distant cousin) and that Harold II - having sworn in 1064 to uphold William's right to succeed to that throne - was therefore a usurper. Furthermore, William had the support of Emperor Henry IV and papal approval. William took seven months to prepare his invasion force, using some 600 transport ships to carry around 7,000 men (including 2,000-3,000 cavalry) across the Channel. On 28 September 1066, with a favourable wind, William landed unopposed at Pevensey and, within a few days, raised fortifications at Hastings. Having defeated an earlier invasion by the King of Norway at the Battle of Stamford Bridge near York in late September, Harold undertook a forced march south, covering 250 miles in some nine days to meet the new threat, gathering inexperienced reinforcements to replenish his exhausted veterans as he marched.

At the Battle of Senlac (near Hastings) on 14 October, Harold's weary and under-strength army faced William's cavalry (part of the forces brought across the Channel) supported by archers. Despite their exhaustion, Harold's troops were equal in number (they included the best infantry in Europe equipped with their terrible two-handled battle axes) and they had the battlefield advantage of being based on a ridge above the Norman positions.

The first uphill assaults by the Normans failed and a rumour spread that William had been killed; William rode among the ranks raising his helmet to show he was still alive. The battle was close-fought: a chronicler described the Norman counter-attacks and the Saxon defence as 'one side attacking with all mobility, the other withstanding as though rooted to the soil'. Three of William's horses were killed under him.

William skilfully co-ordinated his archers and cavalry, both of which the English forces lacked. During a Norman assault, Harold was killed - hit by an arrow and then mowed down by the sword of a mounted knight. Two of his brothers were also killed. The demoralised English forces fled. (In 1070, as penance, William had an abbey built on the site of the battle, with the high altar occupying the spot where Harold fell. The ruins of Battle Abbey, and the town of Battle, which grew up around it, remain.)

William was crowned on Christmas Day 1066 in Westminster Abbey. Three months later, he was confident enough to return to Normandy leaving two joint regents (one of whom was his half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, who was later to commission the Bayeux Tapestry) behind to administer the kingdom. However, it took William six years to consolidate his conquest, and even then he had to face constant plotting and fighting on both sides of the Channel. In 1068, Harold's sons raided the south-west coast of England (dealt with by William's local commanders), and there were uprisings in the Welsh Marches, Devon and Cornwall. William appointed earls who, in Wales and in all parts of the kingdom, undertook to guard the threatened frontiers and maintain internal security in return for land.

In 1069, the Danes, in alliance with Prince Edgar the Aetheling (Ethelred's great-grandson) and other English nobles, invaded the north and took York. Taking personal charge, and pausing only to deal with the rising at Stafford, William drove the Danes back to their ships on the Humber. In a harsh campaign lasting into 1070, William systematically devastated Mercia and Northumbria to deprive the Danes of their supplies and prevent recovery of English resistance. Churches and monasteries were burnt, and agricultural land was laid to waste, creating a famine for the unarmed and mostly peasant population which lasted at least nine years. Although the Danes were bribed to leave the north, King Sweyn of Denmark and his ships threatened the east coast (in alliance with various English, including Hereward the Wake) until a treaty of peace was concluded in June 1070.

Further north, where the boundary with Scotland was unclear, King Malcolm III was encroaching into England. Yet again, William moved swiftly and moved land and sea forces north to invade Scotland. The Treaty of Abernethy in 1072 marked a truce, which was reinforced by Malcolm's eldest son being accepted as a hostage.

William consolidated his conquest by starting a castle-building campaign in strategic areas. Originally these castles were wooden towers on earthen 'mottes' (mounds) with a bailey (defensive area) surrounded by earth ramparts, but many were later rebuilt in stone. By the end of William's reign over 80 castles had been built throughout his kingdom, as a permanent reminder of the new Norman feudal order.

William's wholesale confiscation of land from English nobles and their heirs (many nobles had died at the battles of Stamford Bridge and Senlac) enabled him to recruit and retain an army, by demanding military duties in exchange for land tenancy granted to Norman, French and Flemish allies. He created up to 180 'honours' (lands scattered through shires, with a castle as the governing centre), and in return had some 5,000 knights at his disposal to repress rebellions and pursue campaigns; the knights were augmented by mercenaries and English infantry from the Anglo-Saxon militia, raised from local levies. William also used the fyrd, the royal army - a military arrangement which had survived the Conquest. The King's tenants-in-chief in turn created knights under obligation to them and for royal duties (this was called subinfeudation), with the result that private armies centred around private castles were created - these were to cause future problems of anarchy for unfortunate or weak kings. By the end of William's reign, a small group of the King's tenants had acquired about half of England's landed wealth. Only two Englishmen still held large estates directly from the King. A foreign aristocracy had been imposed as the new governing class.

The expenses of numerous campaigns, together with an economic slump (caused by the shifts in landed wealth, and the devastation of northern England for military and political reasons), prompted William to order a full-scale investigation into the actual and potential wealth of the kingdom to maximise tax revenues. The Domesday survey was prompted by ignorance of the state of land holding in England, as well as the result of the costs of defence measures in England and renewed war in France. The scope, speed, efficiency and completion of this survey was remarkable for its time and resulted in the two-volume Domesday Book of 1086, which still exists today. William needed to ensure the direct loyalty of his feudal tenants. The 1086 Oath of Salisbury was a gathering of William's 170 tenants-in-chief and other important landowners who took an oath of fealty to William.

William's reach extended elsewhere into the Church and the legal system. French superseded the vernacular (Anglo-Saxon). Personally devout, William used his bishops to carry out administrative duties. Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070, was a first-class administrator who assisted in government when William was absent in France, and who reorganised the Church in England. Having established the primacy of his archbishopric over that of York, and with William's approval, Lanfranc excommunicated rebels, and set up Church or spiritual courts to deal with ecclesiastical matters. Lanfranc also replaced English bishops and abbots (some of whom had already been removed by the Council of Winchester under papal authority) with Norman or French clergy to reduce potential political resistance. In addition, Canterbury and Durham Cathedrals were rebuilt and some of the bishops' sees were moved to urban centres.

At his coronation, William promised to uphold existing laws and customs. The Anglo-Saxon shire courts and 'hundred' courts (which administered defence and tax, as well as justice matters) remained intact, as did regional variations and private Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions. To strengthen royal justice, William relied on sheriffs (previously smaller landowners, but replaced by influential nobles) to supervise the administration of justice in existing county courts, and sent members of his own court to conduct important trials. However, the introduction of Church courts, the mix of Norman/Roman law and the differing customs led to a continuing complex legal framework. More severe forest laws reinforced William's conversion of the New Forest into a vast Royal deer reserve. These laws caused great resentment, and to English chroniclers the New Forest became a symbol of William's greed. Nevertheless the King maintained peace and order. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1087 declared 'he was a very stern and violent man, so no one dared do anything contrary to his will ... Amongst other things the good security he made in this country is not to be forgotten.'

William spent the last months of his reign in Normandy, fighting a counter-offensive in the French Vexin territory against King Philip's annexation of outlying Normandy territory. Before his death on 9 September 1087, William divided his 'Anglo-Norman' state between his sons. (The scene was set for centuries of expensive commitments by successive English monarchs to defend their inherited territories in France.) William bequeathed Normandy as he had promised to his eldest son Robert, despite their bitter differences (Robert had sided with his father's enemies in Normandy, and even wounded and defeated his father in a battle there in 1079). His son, William Rufus, was to succeed William as King of England, and the third remaining son, Henry, was left 5,000 pounds in silver. William was buried in his abbey foundation of St Stephen at Caen. Desecrated by Huguenots (1562) and Revolutionaries (1793), the burial place of the first Norman king of England is marked by a simple stone slab. 1032 - 1083 Matilda Of Flanders 51 51 1027 - 1035 II Robert 8 8 SeeNotes - 1026 Richard II "The Good" Amy Wall SeeNotes - 0992 Conan I Of Rennes D. MAR 1075/1076 Ermenguards of Anjou 0893 - 17 DEC 943 William Longsword 1733 John Vanderford 1630 - FEB 1653/1654 Margaret Ramsay SeeNotes - 21 JUL 987 Geoffrey I Grisgonelle SeeNotes - 0961 St. Alfgifu SeeNotes - 0961 Eadgifu Sigehelm James Simms 1615 - 1692 Micheil Paulus Vandervoort 77 77 0920 - 0968 Robert 48 48 SeeNotes Adelaid Giselbert SeeNotes - FEB 1053/1054 I Jaroslav Ruth Wood SeeNotes - 10 FEB 1049/1050 Ingeborg Mary R. Simms bet 1650/1655 - bet 1687/1700 John Pearce Susanna Simms 1053 - 1108 I Phillip 55 55 SeeNotes - 1159 IV Theobald SeeNotes - 1161 Matilda John Nalle Mary Nalle 1187 - 1226 VIII , The Lion Louis 39 39 0846 - 0927 Rollon "Rollo the Dane" Rognvaldsson 81 81 Susanna Delaney 1215 - 1270 Louis , "Saint Louis" IX 55 55 SeeNotes - 1285 Marguerite Of Provence 1658 - 1736 Sarah Sprigg 78 78 Elizabeth Samples 1770 Ruth Samples SeeNotes Marguerite Of France Richard Wall 1043 - 1109 IV Fulk 66 66 Bertrade D. 1427 John Cokayne Zachariah Simms Richard Everett 1726 - 1809 Thomas Simms 83 83 Sarah Wall D. 20 MAR 1352/1353 John De Seagrave 1630 - 1704 Thomas Sprigg 74 74 Elizabeth Seagrave 1665 - 1731 James Prentiss 66 66 1724 William Vanderford Adela Annie Everett 1702 - 1784 Thomas Simms 82 82 John Janney 0932 - 0996 I Richard 64 64 SeeNotes Gunnara SeeNotes - 18 DEC 942 William Longsword 0878 Sprote (Espriota) De Bretagne bet 1645/1646 - bet 1694/1704 Katharine Graves SeeNotes Herbert 0870 - 0932 Robert Ragnvalsson (Rollo) 62 62 0846 - 0932 Poppa DeValoise 86 86 0830 - 0894 Rognvald Eysteinsson 64 64 SeeNotes Count Beringer SeeNotes - 0894 Eysteinsson I Rognvald Ragnhild (Hildre) Amy Simms William Samples Readbuhr Victor Anton Jannsen Eleanor Sprigg 1797 Thomas Scott Simms Cynric 0828 Ranghild Hrolfsson 1666 Rachael Wilson 19 JAN 1640/1641 Michael Vandervoort 0788 Eystein Glumra 0714 - 0768 Pepin 54 54 0635 - 0714 Pepin 79 79 1676 Judith Clay Ann 1632 Francis Clay 1645 - 1694/1704 Eleanor Nuthall 1634 William Clay Robert Wall 1636 Thomas Clay 1652 - 1702 Alexander Frogley 49 49 1657 - 1717 Mary 60 60 1622 Alexander Frogley Julian 1570 - 1642 Alexander Frogley 72 72 1584 - 1653 Agnes Willier 69 69 1605 Christian Frogley 1607 Elizabeth Frogley Ann Sprigg 0817 - >0840 Pepin 23 23 D. 0405 Niall Noigillach 1610 Robert Frogley 1616 Bartholomew Frogley 1618 Anne Frogley 1620 Sarah Frogley 1530 - bet 1614/1615 Alexander Frogley 1495 - 1570 William Frogley 75 75 Ales\ Alice 1527 John Frogley 1521 William Frogley 1523 Daughter Frogley Living Smith Living ? 1525 Margery Frogley Alexander Belcher Thomas Randes 1746 Lancelot Owings 1752 Ruth Owings Mary Arundel Anne Arundel Mary Wriothesley Christopher Philipson 0797 - 17 APR 818 Bernhard 1532 Elizabeth Briggs Elizabeth Sprigg 1792 David Cooper 1794 Kennedy Cooper 1796 Sarah Cooper 1804 Keziah Cooper 1809 James Cooper 1864 Harry Edwin Hughes 1858 - 1917 Nancy Ann Lachtaw 58 58 David Ziegler Lachtaw Kunigunde 1610 - 1663 Thomas Pettus 53 53 1638 - bet 1719/1720 Katherine Morris John Sprigg D. >1689 Thomas Symes D. >1689 Amy Bridges <1655 - >1673 Edward Bridges 18 18 <1657 - >1673 Phillipa Speke 16 16 ~1581 - <1661 John Symes 80 80 <1627 - >1643 Amy Horner 16 16 <1609 - >1627 Thomas Horner 18 18 1660 Aeltje Michaelse Vandervoort <1563 - 1597 William Symes 34 34 <1565 - >1597 Elizabeth Hill 32 32 <1547 - >1565 Robert Hill 18 18 Mary Sprigg <1547 - >1565 Alice Clark 18 18 George Petty Benjamin Petty Rachael Petty Elizabeth Petty Mary Petty Bertha George Morris Eleanor D. 1648 William Pettus 1585 - 1631 Mary Gleane 46 46 Alice Sprigg 1710 - 1803 Isaac Sowards 93 93 Isaac registered to pay taxes in Greenbrier Co., VA, 1796. 3In MD they were Seward's, when they migrated to Delaware/NC/VA, they spelled their name Sowers then later to Sowards. Isaac Sowards I is buried on a small knoll just south of Zenith opposite Peters mountain. The grave is marked with a stone saying he was b. 1745 and died in 1810 but according to Will Bk #6 pg #35 Monroe Co.,VA., he died in 1803. This grave is about two city blocks past the little store in Zenith. Source: Colonial Soldiers of the South, pg. 43 lists following; Maryland Militia under command of Captain James Brown, Queen Anne's Co., MD, 22 Feb 1748/1749 privates # 83 Seward, Tho:s,Jun:r, # 84 Soward, Daniel, # 85 Soward, John, # 86 Soward, Isaac. Source: bessc1@i1.net, Rowan Co., NC tax list 1765 Isaac and brother Daniel. Source: Rowan Co., NC Land Entrys 424. Feb. 16, 1778 Isaac Sower enters 300 acres in Rowan Co. on waters of Hunting Cr; border: John Boon's deeded land on S , John McGuire , John Graham, & Thomas Pennery's improvements. 1228. Aug 3, 1778 Isaac Sowards enters 100 ac in Rowan Co on Hunting Cr: border: John McGuire, Isaac Soward, & John Boone. Source: 1778 Rowan Co., Tax Lists: Isaac Sowards 230, Capt. Reeds Dist. John Sowards and Matthew Vanderford, Pole Tax List Source: Greenbrier Tax Lists by Larry Shuck: Vol. 2 pg. 47, 1783 Isaac Sowards 1 horse Bk. # 2 1783 Thomas Sowards tithables 1, 2 horses 2 cows Bk. # 2 pg. 79 1786 Isaac Sowards Jr titables 1, 1 horse 1786 Isaac Sowards Sr titables 1, 1 horse 5 cattle 1786 Thomas Sowards titables 1, 1 horse, 4 cattle List of tithables by date of visitation pg. 108 1792 May 16 John Lewis, Isaac Soward, Isaac Soward Jr, Thomas Soward pg 112 1792 June 14 Samuel Lewis ( Ind Ck) pg 113 1792 June 18 Griffin Soward pg 178 1796 May 4 John Lewis, Samuel Lewis Jr, Samuel Lewis Sr, Zebulan Lewis. Source: Francis Dittmann 1998, Original will found in shoe box on top shelf in clerk's office. Will probated September 1803 Monroe Co., VA Source: Will Bk W Pg 136 21 Jan 1803 To wife Mileston plantion, buildings, cleared land, orchards and one horse, two cows and their increase likewise four head of sheep and their increase likewise twenty two head of hoggs and their increase likewise all the household furniture and all the fowls of every description durning her widowhood and after the decease of both of us then Isaac Sowards Jun my son everything. To Thomas, Ruth, Milston, Griffin, Rebecca and Nelly five Shillings Sterling. Executors wife Mileston and son Isaac Jun. Test. Elijah Ballard, Richard Ramey, William Brown and Philip Ballard ( I have copy ) Source: Land Deeds Monroe Co.WV 51 -Grantees 1786 Sowards, Thomas- Sur R Bk S3 Pg.184 Dropping Lick Creek 137A 21 March 1786 Source; Land Entry Book Greenbrier Co.,WV by Helen S Stinson page 191 Isaac Sowards enters 159 acres of land by state warrant #13720 dated 6 August 1782 for 1163 acres who was assignee of Dooley on Droping Lick Creek where said Isaac Sowards now lives.(232). Sur R Bk S3 pg.185. 1789 Sowards, Thomas- Sur R Bk.S3 Pg.24 Dropping Lick Creek 83A 5 June 1794 Sowards, Thomas- Sur R Bk.S3 Pg.48 Peters Mt & head waters of Rich Cr.360A Grants 30 pg. 173 1792 Sowards, Isaac- Sur R Bk S3 Pg.245 Peters Mt.300A (Isaac Jr ?) 1794 Sowards, Thomas- Sur R Bk. S5 Pg.69 from Michael Swope 164A 1795 Sowards, Solomon- Sur R Bk.S3 Pg.306 Dropping Lick 100A 14 Nov. 1800 Sowards, James-62a. Sur R Bk.S3 Pg.319 on South Branch Dropping Lick Creek ajoining Jos Feagons formerly Thos. Sowards and John Beckleys Survey on Peters Mt. Grants 47, pg. 429 5 Nov.1805 Sowards, Solomon-180 a. Sur R Bk.S1 Pg.173 on Dividing Ridge between Hans Ck. and Indian Ck. adjoining John Rosebrough and Burton Smith 180A Grants 54 pg. 412 1806 Sowards, Solomon-Sur R Bk.S1 Pg. 216 S Side Gor River 50A John Pettus Edward Pettus William Pettus Elizabeth Pettus 1926 Paul Eugene Cyrus 18 MAR 1609/1610 Anna Pettus 1613 Martha Pettus Peter Gleane Maude Sucklings 1552 - 1620 Thomas Pettus 67 67 1562 - 1641 Cecily King 79 79 Thomas Sprigg Ann Pettus John Pettus Edward Pettus Bertrada Henry Pettus Susan Pettus Elizabeth Pettus George Pettus Frances Pettus Mary Pettus Thomas Pettus Martha Sprigg Theodore Pettus Christian Pettus Chalpaida\ Alpaida 1525 - 7 JAN 1595/1596 Thomas Pettus 1524 - 1578 Christian Dethick 54 54 William Pettus Alexandria Pettus Elizabeth Pettus Isabel Pettus Cecily Pettus Anne Agnes Pettus 1604 - bet 1678/1679 Thomas Sprigg 1582 John Pettus Count of Laon Charibert 1478 - 1542 Simon Dethick 64 64 Rose Crow 1500 - 1558 John Pettus 58 58 Jone Dethick Agnes Pettus 1460 Thomas Pettous Dorothy Petty Elizabeth Petty Martha 1610 - >1661 Katherine Griffin 51 51 Bertrada Living ? ~1660 - 1698 John Garton 38 38 1635 - bet 1709/1726 William Garton 1639 Margaret Angell Esther Garton Anthony Garton Uriah Garton Catherine Garton James Garton Margaret Garton 1609 Maude Pettus Saint Leutwinus 1674 - 1721 John Talbott 47 47 William Angell 1458 - 1527 Christopher Crow 69 69 1462 Christian 1430 Richard Crow 1432 - 1502 Margery 70 70 1853 - 1908 Eli Thomas Mynes 55 55 1834 Thomas Alexander Spencer 1842 America Paul E.M. Lavender Daughter of Rodobertus E.E. Tulley Living ? 1770 Andrew Mynes Elizabeth Brisco 1796 Thomas Mynes 1820 Mary Mynes Ruth Mynes William Henderson M. Persinger D. 1809 Thomas Mynes Living Smith Martha D. 1809 Thomas Mynes Elizabeth Turner 1803 Isaac Mynes Jane Mynes Nancy Mynes Thomas Mynes 1789 Samuel Mynes David Mynes John Mynes William Count of Toulouse 1678 - 1737 Charles Vandervoort 59 59 1689 - <1747 Thomas Vandervoort 58 58 1684 - 1758 George Vandervoort 74 74 Paul Talbott 1688 Catharine Vandervoort D. >1632 Michele Sauvagie 1490 - 1567 Jean Raparlier 77 77 1505 Gaspard Colet de Rapalje ? Janssen Abram Janssen Count of Senlis Herbert Living Griffith Living Shafer Living Griffith Living Harpold Thomas Talbott Living Harpold Living Harpold Living Harpold 1861 - 1945 Jefferson Davis Salmons 83 83 John C. Salmons D. 0992 I Conan Rhoda Frazier Louise Adams 1857 - <1957 Thomas Salmons 100 100 1864 Sarah J. Salmons 1867 Susan Salmons John Thomas Talbott 1714 - >1803 Miliston Vanderford 89 89 1870 Minerva "America" Salmons 1802 - >1870 Thomas Salmons 68 68 D. <1850 Artemancia Frazier Hugh Cooper 1824 Roland Salmons 1831 - <1900 Elizabeth Salmons 69 69 Joseph Gray 1832 - >1880 Susannah Salmons 48 48 Jefferson Robertson 1835 - <1920 Weeks Salmons 85 85 Lucinda Jane Click Alice Talbott 1836 - 1858 Nancy Salmons 22 22 Bailey Crisp Fulbert de Falaise 1841 Minerva Salmons 1841 - <1930 James H. Salmons 89 89 Nancy 1842 Cynthia Salmons 1842 Anna Salmons 1843 Thomas Salmons Judith 1845 - <1945 Hezekiah Salmons 100 100 Benjamin Talbott 1847 Solomon Salmons Doda Caroline ~1755 - ~1827 Rowland Salmons 72 72 ~1768 - >1850 Frances Carter 82 82 1796 - >1850 Jonathan Salmons 54 54 Martha 1800 Roland Salmons Edna Osborne 1805 - 1878 Jane Salmons 72 72 James Click Osborn Talbott Henry V Roighnach 1807 - 1861 Elizabeth Salmons 54 54 1810 - 1874 Carter Bailey Salmons 64 64 Cynthia Webb 1815 - >1850 Weeks Salmons 35 35 Harriet Malindy McGuire 1720 - 1764 John Salmons 44 44 D. 1767 Eleanor McCarty 1740 John Salmons 1745 Lewis Salmons 1750 Ezekiah Salmons Raymond Berenger Anne Talbott William B. Frazier Artemancia Elkins 1760 - 1829 George Wilson Simms 68 68 He was drafted into the American Rev. War army and his brother, James, Jr. substituted for him in his wedding to Susannah Delaney.

He was a Baptist Minister

"Know all present that we George Simms and Henry Hill are heldand bound unto His Excellency Gov. Henry Lee, of Commonwealth ofVirginia & his successors in sum of $500 current money, December26, 1793. The condition of above obligation is such that whereasthe above George Simms a Methodist Minister having proved to theCounty Court of Madison a Certificate of hisOrdination....according to the Act of Assembly passed in October1784 Intitled an act to regulate the Solemnization of Marriage.Now, if the sd. George Simms shall well & truly perform thetrust agreeable to the sd. act, then the above obligation to bevoid, else to remain in full force and virtue. Signed & sealed &delivered. In the presence of George Simms, Henry Hill. At aCourt for Madison, Dec 26, 1793. This bond was recorded. Test.John Walker Jr. CMC 1793".
On November 24, 1808, George Simms gave bond as a BaptistMinister in same county.


Real estate transfers (brief abstracts): Culpeper County,Virginia
Q-173 1) June 20, 1791 Thos. Gaines to George Sims 166 1/2Acres, descr including S side Stone's Run - James Sims - MosesBroyle - Field's old line - Alexr Newmark James Sims' old line.Peggy Gaines released dower rts. (DB R- pg 213) in 1792.

Madison County Virginia (taken from Culpeper in 1792/3) :
1) 3-536 June 28, 1804 George Simms & wf Susannah to MansonSeamonds 34 1/4 Acres to corner wdo Sims in John Robertsline...to Edward Sims on S side Tenants Church Road.....tocorner sd George Simms....Mill Pond...etc.; also 10 1/2 AcresJune 28, 1805 on Church Road....W side Stones Run...springbranch...Mill damb...Mill Run. (4-133).

2) 4-272 June 5, 1806 Manson Seamonds & wf Elizabeth to GeorgeSimms 10 1/2 Acres called the Mill tract having a sawmillthereon, etc. (Same as 4-133).

3) 8-346 Feb 3, 1825 George Simms & wf Susannah to Elkanah DSimms 15 1/2 Acres...Geo Simmes' line...corner to HneryHill..corner to Landon Clatterbuck.

4) 8-348 Feb 3, 1825 George Simms & wf Susannah to LandonClutterbuck 2 Acres...corner Elkanah D Simms.....Hillsline....corner George Simms.

5) 9-244 April 23, 1826 George Simms & wf Susannah of Madison Coto George W Simms of Culp. 23+ Acres, tract of land George Simmsnow lives on ...corner to Mary Field in George Simmsline...Miller's line etc.

1810 Census Madison County Virginia: George Simms 1 m 45+; 1 F45+; 1 F 10-26; 3 M 10-16; 3 M -16; 1 slave.

1810 PPTL Madison County Virginia: George Sims with 1 white & 1black tithable & 5 horses; in land tax of 1811: 105 Acres & 195Acres. Also listed in Culpeper in 1789; in Madison 1793; 1799;1803; 1806 etc.

Will of George Simms; January 17, 1829; March 26, 1829 MadisonCo., Va. Excrs: Sons James L & George W; wits: Daniel James,Daniel R Huffman & Susanna Fitzburgh. Legatees: To wife Susanna,all during her lifetime; then to children: Elizabeth Miller,children of William D. Simms dec'd, late of Kentucky; Mary RPratt; Susanna Miller; James L Simms, George W Simms, Thomas SSimms; John W Simms, Elkanah D Simms, Eliab D Simms, Edward SSimms.
Madison County Va WB 5- pg 226, 248, 249 - will, inv & sale ofestate.

He was drafted for the Revolutionary Wary, but his brotherEdward substituted for him. 1763 Sarah Susanna Delaney Elizabeth Simms John Miller Mary R. Simms Benjamin Pratt Susanna Simms 1215 - 1270 Louis IX "Saint Louis" 55 55 Goodlove Miller William Talbott James L. Simms Elizabeth Pratt George W. Simms John Wesley Simms Elias Simms 1784/1794 William D. Simms 1807 Edward Simms 1807 Elkanah Simms Roger Halys 1728 - 1802 James Simms 74 74 James was an educated man, as indicated by the fact that he signed various documents throughout his life. When he died he had many slaves and extensive land holdings, perhaps as much as 7000 acres or more.

Note: James Sims, son of Thomas & Rebecca Petty Sims, b abt 1728 inVirginia (Richmond or Spotsylvania County), and the family livedsubsequently in Orange & Culpeper Counties in Va. He marriedElizabeth Nalle, dau of Jaohn Nalle.

John Nalle, son of Martin, was in Spotsylvania County Va. by1734 when he sold to Thomas Burke of Essex (Martin Nalle Sr.refers in his will in Essex County, Va 5- pg 271 to "cousinThomas Burke") Parish of Southfarnum, 165 Acres, part of 300Acres purchased by Nary Nalle of Richard Kemp in 1705 + 10 Acresgiven to John by his father Martin...."except burying placewhere Martin Nalle & wf lie buried" + 155 Acres purchased byRichard Kemp of Middlesex County & later purch. of Martin Nallewho bequeathed it to his son John. John's will written 16September 1780 & probated in Culpeper County Va 19 Aug 1782mentions amongst his legatees sons Richard, John, Wm, Francis,James & daus Agatha Hill, May Sims, Elizabeth Sims (the wife ofJames Sims), Griessel Parker & Annie Morris.
Essex County, Va DB D20- pg 88, D17- pg108, D23- pg 215,Culpeper County, Va WB B- pg519.

The name James Sims, as well as William & John Sims, is of suchfrequent occurrence in not only the early records of Virginia,but also those of several surrounding states that it is oftendifficult - sometimes impossible with the records available - todetermine which one belongs to a given family. This James Simsis one whose identity, although not clear throughout, has enoughfacts to make a fairly complete outline of his family. Morematerial on some other James Sims will be presented later.

1789 Tax Lists Culpeper County Va, there are three commissionerslists available:
Daniel Brown list: March 7 James Simes with 2 white males 16=; 6black males 16+; 0 blacks -16; 6 horses. Other Sims on the samelist were: Jeremiah, Thos Jr, Richard, Abner, Thos Jr, Reubin &Wm Sims.

John Gibbs list: no James Sims, but William Sims & your son;George & Eliab Delaney; Edward & Jeremiah Sims.

Aaron Lane list: May 13 Simes, James (Mr D Hennings overseer)1-0-0-1.

In 1791 Daniel Brown list: Mar 28 Sims, James, Wm & James3-6-2-9. Others on same list: Mar 21 Sims, Jeremiah & FrancisWillis 2-0-0-1: Mar 21 Sims, Thomas Jr 1-0-0-1; April 18 Sims,James 1-0-0-1; March 27 Sims, Thos & sons 3-0-0-2; William1-0-1-2; Reubin 1-0-0-1; Richard 1-1-0-2. Aaron Lane list, noSims. List # 3 - Simms, George 1-0-1-3 (Mar 21); Simms, Wm & son2-1-0-4 (March 23 ); Sims, Jeremiah 1-0-0-1 (March 23) ; Simms,Edward 1-1-1-2 (April 18) ; Simms, James 1-1-0-3 (May 26).

Culpeper County Virginia Deeds showing some of James Sims'holdings:
E- pg 738: Oct 19, 1769 James Sims purchased from Thomas Pitcher& wf Susannah 88 Acres..."to white oak in the head of abranch".... in the old line & from thence to thebeginning....with houses, etc. No wits.

F-28: Dec 21 1769 James Sims from Joseph James & wf Mary 95Acres adj tract purch of Thos Pitcher...E side Main road...toRoman Lotts line...to wh oak in a branch corner to sd Pitcher'sland. No wits.

H- 542: Oct 20 1777 James Sims from Wm Rowman & wf Mary &Abraham Rowman an est. 143 Acres corner Abr Rowman on W side ofThornton's road...down several courses & crossing sdRoad...thence with sd Sims line....to Daniel Feild's line...pineof N side of Bloodworths Road...corner to Tucker...corner to AbrRowman then with sd Roman's line to beginning. (Signed) WilliamRowman, Mary Rowman. No wits.

N- 408: Oct 16, 1786 Moses Broyles & wf Barbary to James Sims 93Acres Brumfield Parish....up Bludworth's road...S to white oak &maple standing on a run...on sd run by Sims old church road..Nowits.

R-10 Nov 17, 1792 Chas Holdway & wf Mary, Benjamin Dulaney & wfJudith & Bridget Holdway to James Sims Senr 111 Acres BrumPar...Beg. at two pines near the plantation...in Rattle Snakebranch...N side of mtn..corner to Delany...on Thornton road...inLong's line & corner to roman. Thence with Long's line to thebeginning. Wits: H Hill, William Sims, Abraham Rowman, FrenchStrother.

R- 413 Oct 21, 1793. Abraham Rowman & wf Gilley to James Sims,est. 60 1/2 Acres...N side of Thorn's road & corner with JamesSims....with Tucker's line...sd Roberts line...in Moses Tucker'sline....lines of Sims...down road to begining. Wits: EdwardSims, Wm Sims.

R-474 Dec 14, 1792 Thos Gaines & wf Peggy to James Sims Senr twotracts in Culp: 1) 56 Acres beg. oak N side of Tenants oldchurch road in Moses Broyles line & corner to Henry Hill...withold Road & sd Hill line...crossing a branch of Crooked run...toAlexander Numan in Fields old pattent line...corner to GeoSims...with Sims line to maple S side Stone run & corner withJames Sims & Moses Broyles...with Broyles line to beginning; 2)Beg. two pines in Col. Beverly line & corner with Roberts...withBeverly line...corner to George Sims...corner Geo Sims in JamesSims line...in Roberts line...to beg. 44 1/2 Acres. Wits: JamesSlaughter, Rowse Fry, Edmd Gaines.

Will of James Sims Feb 18, 1802; Oct 18, 1802 Culpeper County,Va. :
"In the name of God, Amen. I James Sims of Culpeper County andState of Virginia do make this my Last Will and Testament.

I lend to my Dear Wife Betty Sims during her natural life mytract of Land in Madison County which purchased of WilliamTaylor and is adjoining the Land of Beverly and Robertts andGeorge Sims. I also lend to my said wife during her natural lifetwo slaves called and known by the Names of Jacob and Poll. Ialso lend my said wife one third part of my personal Estate(other than slaves) and allow her to take her choice accordingto appraisment and at the death of my wife, I give and bequeaththe Land Slaves and personal estate herein lent to be equallydivided between all my children.

In case one or more of my children should depart this Lifebefore my wife and if such child or children should leave issuein such case my will and desire is that such issue should havethe part that their parents would have been entitled to, but ifone or more of the children should depart this life before mywife without issue then such child or children part shall bedivided between my other children or their Legal Representatives- Whereas I have formerly given to my Son Martin Simms a smallmale slave called George and to my Daughter Salley Jones Simms asmall male slave called Gidion and a doubt may arise whether alegal title is vested in my said son & daughter of the saidslaves to prevent any doubt concerning the title of the saidslaves, I hereby give and bequeath to my said son Martin Simmsand his heirs and assigns forever the said slave called Georgeand also give and bequeath ti my said daughter Salley JonesSimms her heirs and assigns forever, Gidion, the slaveaforementioned.

In case I should depart this life before I build a dwellinghouse on the landwhich I have herein lent to my wife, in thatcase my Executors hereafter named and hereby...and required tobuild for my wife a dwelling house and other necessaryouthouses, I give and Bequeath to my Executors, hereafter named,in trust for the benefit for my daughter, Nancy Wilhitt and herchildren, one-tenth part of my estate not before directed and dohereby require my said Executors or the survivors of them toapply the profit of the same in the support and maintenance ofmy said daughter and her children she now has or may have duringthe life of my said daughter and at the death of my daughter, Igive and Bequeath the same to be equally divided between thechildren of my said daughter which she now has or may have butin case any other children should depart this life before theirmother and such children should have issue, in that case theissue of such children shall have the part their parents wouldhave been entitled to.

I give and Bequeath to my other nine children the remainder ofmy estate, both real and personal to be equally divided betweenthem in the followung manner that my Executors, hereafter named,shall divide my estate in an equal manner as possible and thendetermine by Lott the particular part of each child and that myExecutors shall cause the same to be publicly divided and thenreturn an account thereof to Court to be recorded and I dohereby give each of my said children the part so allotted tothem to their heirs and assigns forever provided neverthelessthat any child to whom I have acknowledged land such landexclusive of the improvements and any of my children who aresettled on my lands shall have their part of my land laid off insuch manner as to include the prt which they at present possess.

I do nominate and appoint my two sons George Sims and EdwardSimms, executors of this my last Will and Testament in Witnesshere of I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal thiseighteenth day of February, One thousand and eight hundred andtwo.
(Signed) James Sims (S.S.)
Sealed and Published as his Last Will and Testament in theprescence of
Benjamin Leavell
Edmund Willis
John Walker

At a Court held for Culpeper County the 18th day of October1802."
Culpeper County VA WB F- pg 283. Report of Edward Sims Excr ofJames Sims Sr. est:
9/18/1803 By cash paid selected items
By cash paid Martin Sims as overseer 9/1-
" Joseph Roberts as legatee 5/3/6

" Retained in my hands as balance
of legacy due Amy Sims orphan
Wm Sims
" Betty Sims for her part tob. 7/15/3
" Charles Major on legacy in part 9/4/-
" Sally J. Sims on do (ditto) 22/4/-
1/2/1804
By cash paid
" James G. Jones as legatee 28/16/8
" Edward Sims as legatee 7/16/- = 6/ - / -
" Joseph Roberts as do 28/18/6
" Charles Major as do 16/16/1 3/4

The inventory was filed in the James Sims est. Jan 17, 1803 (D-pg 412).
Final settlement of accts. of excrs George Sims & Edward Simmsof Est. of Jas. Sims, dec'd - Oct 2, 1811.

1810 Census Madison County Va : Sims, Betty 45= ; 1 F 16-26; 5slaves
Betty Sims was listed in the 1806 Personal Tax List of CulpeperCo., Va; 1811 land tax list of Culpeper: 61 Acres & PPTL, 2negroe tithes, 3 horses. Elizabeth Nalle Sarah Talbott John Nalle Mary Brown 1784 Martin Simms Mary Wilhoite 1788 Sally Jones Simms John Fray Nancy Simms 1346 - 1397 Richard Fitz Alan 51 51 Gabriel Wilhoite William Simms Elizabeth Simms Living ? Mary Simms Charles Major Martha Simms 1762 - 1823 Edward Simms 61 61 1767 - 1865 James Simms 97 97 D. <1802 Daughter Simms 1920 - 1984 Charlie Elihue Salmons 64 64 James G. Jones 1702 - 1785 Thomas Simms 83 83 Moved to Spotsylvania Co., VA in 1733. His will was written the day his wife, Rebecca died. His will names his children.

Note: Other Kanawha County, West Virginia records published in theWest Virginia History magazines in articles by William H.McGinnis: "Several of the Sims-Simms families that settled inthe present counties of Kanawha, Putnam, Fayette, Nicholas,Lewis, Roane. Mason & Cabell, West Virginia came from CulpeperCounty, Virginia where Thomas Sims Sr. and his wife, Rebeccawere living when that county was formed in 1748." "In 1833William R. Woods & wife transferred to Henry Sims of CulpeperCounty 2, 076 acres in Kanawha County (now Putnam), adjoiningthe Craik grant and including the site of Scary, where Union andConfederate forces first clashed in the Kanawha Valley in theWar between the States. Henry Sims and his wife, Margaret"Peggy" Marshall, who according to family tradition was relatedto Chief Justice John Marshall, had apparently settled on thattract some years earlier, as he is credited in Hardesty's"History of Putnam County" formed from Kanawha, Mason & Cabell,with having established the first grist mill in what laterbecame Putnam County near Scary about 1820."

Thomas Sims will written 21 April 1784: Item 8 - "I do give &bequeath Ann Graves....and all that befell to her by Division toher and her heirs lawfully Begotten forever."

Thomas Sims was under the age of twenty when his father wrotehis will April 1716. Following his father's death in the summerof 1716, Thomas was granted 112 A. "in Parish of Sittenbourne,County of Richmond, bounded by land of Doyle Matthew Bean andland of Wm Sims deceased, purchased from sd Doyle....also byBakers land...dated 17 Dec 1717.".......Va Land grants (UpperNeck) 1713-1719,
Bk 5-234.

He married Rebecca Petty (Patty, Paty) dau of Thomas & CatherineGarten-Petty, also of Richmond County, before 30 Nov 1725, foron that date Thos. Sims of Sittenbourne Parish in that County,and his wife Rebecca sold 112 A., "part of patent granted toThos Hobson dec'd - Escheated by the Guardians of ye afore namedThomas Sims"......to Land of Doyle and along the line of Wm simsdec'd....past Matthew Beans....to Alvin Mothershead of parishand county afsd. Dec 1725 for 6000 lbs tobacco. (Signed) ThosSims, Rbecca (X) Sims. ........Richmond Co., Va DB 8-303, 4.

Thomas Patty and Catherine his wife, one of the daughters ofJohn Garten, deceased, complained against Robert Post & Anna hiswife administrators of John Hughes, excr of John Garten, in aplea that they render unto the plaintiffs the sum of seventeenhundred and fifty-two pounds of tobacco showing that John Gartenlate of this county, deceased, in his late Will & Testamentdated ye 17th of June 1698 gave & bequeathed his wife and fivechildren Richard, John, Mathew, Catherine and Ruth, one half ofall his estate equally to be divided amongst them, which estatebeing appraised amounted to 17, 504 pounds of tobacco, theone-half of which is 8,752 and Richard, one of the childrenbeing dead, the said 8,752 pounds of tobacco being equallydivided between the widow and four children - equal partamounting to 1,782 fifths pounds of tobacco for which the saidplaintiffs brought suit and demand judgement with costs...........Richmond County Order Book#3-, p79 & John Garten 1721Inventory, Will Book same county.

Their final land sale in Richmond County was made 4 March 1733when Thos Sims od Lunenburg Parish, Richmond County sold toWilliam Jordan of same parish and county for 60 lbs currentmoney of Virginia 100 A. of land in parish and county afsd"which sd one hundred acre of Land be the same more or lessWilliam Sims Father of the said Thomas Late of the Countyaforesd Dec'd formerly Purchased of John Doyle & by his lastWill and Testament among Sundry other Legacies gave & Devised tohis sd Son Thomas by the said Will (bearing date the twentyeighth day of Apr one thousand seven hundred &Sixteen).....(Signed) Thos Sims. Wit: Alvin Mountjoy, JohnNaylor, Edd Collinsworth. Recorded the same day............Richmond Co., Va DB8-679.

This sale apparently was in preparation for Thomas and RebeccaSims removal to a tract on the Rapidan River then inSpotsylvannia County, for the lease of land by AlexanderSpotswood to Thomas and Rebecca Sims 23 Oct 1734 stated thatthey already had been settled one year on the tract, which wason the south side of the river. The terms leased to Thomas Sims,planter, 108 acres in St. Mark's parish, Spotsylvannia County,part of 40,000 acres granted to Spotswood, called the SpotswoodTract, and excepted minerals and quarries. The lease was to "ThoSims and his assignees for & during the natural lives ofRebecca, the wife, and Thomas ye son of Thomas, Senior, forduring the natural life and lives of the youngest liver of them,yielding and paying therefore yearly and every year of the first4 years....on the 25th of December, one ear of Indian corn andevery year after the expiration of the said four first years 624pounds weight of good sound marketable toptobacco.....delivering it at a convenient landing in the Countyof Spotsylvania." The terms of the lease also required them toplant within four years 300 fruit trees (one third apple trees);the orchard was to be fenced in; all buildings and fences to bekept in good repair. Thomas Sims was also to provide onelaboring hand for making the water dam or race of any grist millwhich Spotswood, his heirs or assignees desired. It alsoprovided that if Rebecca or Thomas Jr. should die before 25 Dec1775 or before Thomas Sims Senior, the latter or his assignscould chose the person or persons to take their place. Date ofRecord: 5 Nov 1734. Wit: John Grame, John Pattey & William (X)Morton. Others leasing the land, the same day from Spotswood;James Jones Sr., Thomas and James Jones, sons (200 acres),Thomas Pettey, wf Katherine and son Christopher (100 acres),William, Jeremiah and Elijah Morton (200 acres), all on thesouth side of Rapidan river, and John Petty, wf Rebecca and sonThomas (100 acres) on N. side of Rapidan River........Spotsylvania Co., Va DB C-(1734-1742). Crozier'sSpotsylvania County Reords, pp 136,7.

Since Orange County was formed from the western part ofSpotsylvania in 1734, Thomas Sims is listed in the Orange Countytithables of 1734 with 2 white males of taxable age; in 1739, 42tithables. Orange County records show that Thomas Sims purchasedland from Timothy Johnson in 1738 and that on 26 July 1744 ThosSims and wf Rebecca of Orange County sold to Francis Williams,same county, 200 acres purchased of Johnston, bounded by land ofTimothy Johnson, John Zachary, and Barbers. ......Tiths 1739:Orange County Va Families Vol Ii Wm Brockman c 1956 p 135;Orange County Va DB 2-355, 6 & 9-184-186.

Thos Sims served on the jury Feb 1735 (1736). ......OrangeCounty Va DB 1 & 2 1735-1739 by J.F. Dorman, p 71.

Culpeper County was taken from Orange in 1748. Brumfield Parishwas cut off St. Mark's by act of assembly in 1752 and "includedwhat is now Madison & Rappahannock Counties and a small sectionof Culpeper." ....."History of St. Mark's Parish, CulpeperCounty, Virginia", by Phillip Slaughter (1877) pp 78, 80.

Culpeper deeds give the following information regarding ThomasSims:

19 Aug 1772 Timothy Holdway & wf Bridgett of Culp to ThomasSims, Sr. 105 acres adj Richard Parker's line in severalplaces.....on E side Mtn. Run. ..........D-77.

14 August 1765 John Sims planter & wf Ann to Thos Sims, all ofBromfield Parish, Cup Co 60 A in Bromfield Par, part of MichaelWilhoite's patent 1728 for 289 A.....W side of Muddy Run in AdamWayland's line. (Signed) John Sims, Ann (X) Sims Wits: JohnFlynt, James Sims, Thos. Sims Jnr.,....E-70.

Thomas Sims & wife Rebecca conveyed this same land to Wm Scottof Orange Co 18 Sept 1766, with John Flynt, Thos Sims Jun.,William (X) Clark, wits. ....... E-191.

19 Apr 1770 Richard Parker & wf Grisel to Thomas Sims 29 AcresNorth side of Mtr Run...in sd Sims old line (F-45); and the sameday Thos conveyed to Richard Parker 29 A on South side of Mtn.Run - an exchange of land, same consideration, on opposite sideof Mountain Run. (F-45,46).

5 May 1783 Thomas Sims of Culpeper deed of gift to dau Amy, wifeof Absalom Bobo, & gr dau Nancy Powell. Wit: Lewis Graves, Geo.Sims, Wm Powell. (L-288)

15 August 1783 Thomas Sims to Elijah Sims. Deed of gift. 85acres purchased from T. Holdway & obtained by swap of RichardParker except 30 acres conveyed to Richard Sims. Bounded bylands of Richard Sims, Richard Parker, Thos Sims Jr & ElijahSims party thereto & personal items except 1/2 acre Thos Simsreserves for a burying ground. Not to include any presentbuildingd. Wit: Ambrose Coleman, Rchd. Parker, Stephen Bingham...........(M-203).

Will of Thomas Sims Sr.:
"In the name of God Amen I Thomas Sims Sener of Brumfield Parishand County of Culpeper being Sick and weak in body but ofperfect mind and memory Thanks be given to God Therefore Callingto mind the Mortality of my body and knowing that it isAppointed for all men once to die do make and Ordain This mylast Will and Testament that is to say Principally and first ofall I do give and Recommend my soul into the hand of theAlmighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earthto be buried in a decent Christian Burial at the Discretion ofmy Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection Ishall reieve the same again by the Mighty power of God and astouching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God tobless me in this life I give devise and Despose of the same inthe following Manner and form Imprimis.
Item first of all I do Give and bequeath and bequeath to myeldest son Thomas Sims Junr. that part of my Estate that fell tohim by division, and Likewise I do give and bequeath to my sonThomas Sims my negroe woman by name Milley and her Child to himand his heirs Lawfully begotten forever, Likewise my son ThomasSims Juner is to pay Thirty pounds in gold or silver to my sonWilliam Sims Deceased Children Six Pounds to each Child as theycome of age and other little debts comeing against me-

Item Secondly I do give and bequeath to my son James Sims mynegro man Peter and all that fell to him by Division to him andhis Heirs Lawfully begotten forever Likewise I do give andbequeath to Elizabeth Sims wife of James Sims my Gilt LookingGlass and I desire at her Death that one of her sons may haveit.

Item Thirdly I do give and bequeath to my son Elijah Sims theland he lives on The Gardon excepted and Likewise a Negro boy byname Abraham and all that fell to him by Division to him and hisheirs sons of his first wife Lawfully begotten forever-

Item Fourthly I do give and bequeath to my Daughter Amay Bobo anegro woman by name Cate, and all of her Children, and I desireif John Sims lives with Absalom Bobo and his wife untill hecomes of age they may give him one of the Negro Children if theysee proper, This Negroe woman Cate and all her Children, and allthat fell to her by Division is to her her and her heirsLawfully Begotten forever-

Item Fifthly I do give and bequeath to my two Grand DaughtersLucy and Anna Jones Daughters of my Daughter Sarah Jones deceasda Negroe Woman by name Rose and a boy named Peter and all thatpart that fell to my said daughter Sarah Jones by Division tothem and Their heirs Lawfully Begotten for Ever, This Estatethey are to recieve at the day of of Marriage or Coming toLawful age-

Item Sixthly I do give and Bequeath to my Son Zachariah Sims aNegro man by name Moses and all that fell to him by division tohim and his heirs Lawfully Begotten for ever

Item Seventhly I do give and Bequeath to my son Richard Sims aNegro woman by name Dafne, and Likewise Thirty odd Acres of Landand all that fell to him by Division to him and his heirsLawfully Begotten for Ever.

Item Eighly I do give and Bequeath Ann Graves an Negroe woman byname Winney and her Child and all that fell to her by Divisionto her and her Heirs Lawfully Begotten forever

Item Ninthly I do Desire that my Feather bed and Furtinure andwhat other things I possess may be sold to the highest bider inthe Family and the Money Rising Therefrom be Equally Dividedamongst all my Children-
And Lastly I do appoint my sons Thomas and James Sims my holeand Sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament herebyRevoking all former wills and Declaring this to be my my lastwill and Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand Seal This 21stday of April 1784
Thos (L.S.)
and Sealed and Declared Before us
Jas Sims Edwd Sims William Mason

At a Court held for Culpeper County the 18th day of July 1785

This last Will and Testament of Thomas Sims Decd was Exhibitedto the Court by thomas Sims one of the Exors therein named andwas proved by the Oaths of Edwd Sims & William Mason two of theWitnesses thereto & Ordered to be recorded And on the Motion ofthe said Executor Certificate is granted them for obtaining aprobate thereof in due form they having made oath thereto andgiven bond & Security according to Law Liberty being reservedfor the other Exor therin named to Qualify when he may thinkfit.

Teste: C.T. Guinn Cl.C. Cur.

Virginia:
In Culpeper County Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
I, C.T. Guinn, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the saidCounty aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do hereby certifythat the foregoing is a true copy of the will of Thomas SimsSenior, which was probated in this office on the 18th day ofJuly 1785, and is of record in this office in Will Book "C",page 129
Given under my hand this 23rd day of November, 1934.
Teste: C. T. Guinn, Clerk"

No evidence of the relationship of John Sims (Mentioned in thewill) to Thomas Sims Sr. has been found. However, since AnnGraves received an equal share of the estate with other childrenof Thomas, she evidently was a daughter.

Thomas Sim(m)s, son of William of Richmond Co., Virginia, wasborn abt 1702 (he was under the age of 20 when his father wrotehis will April 1716). Following his Father's death in the summerof 1716, Thomas was granted 112 Acres "in Parish of Sittenbourn,County of Richmond, bounded by land of Doyle Matthew Bean andland of Wm Sims deceased, purchased from said Doyle...also byBakers land..dated 17 Dec 1717." Virginia Land Grants (UpperNeck) 1713-1719 Bk 5-234

He married Rebecca Petty, sometimes spelled Patty or Paty,daughter of Thomas Petty & Catherine Garten, also of RichmondCounty, Virginia, before November 30, 1725, for on that dateThos Sims of Sittenbourn Parish in that County, and his wifeRebecca sold 112 Acres, "part of patent granted to Thos Hobsondec'd - Escheated by the Guardians of ye afore-named ThomasSims"...to Land of Doyle and along the line of Wm Simsdec'd...past Matthew Beans..to Alvin Mothershead of parish andcounty afsd. Rec 1725 for 6000 lbs tobacco. (Signed) Thos Sims,Rebecca (X) Sims Richmond County, Va DB 8-303, 304.

Thomas Patty and Catherine his wife, one of the daughters ofJohn Garten deceased, complained against Robert Post & Anna hiswife, administrators of John Hughes, excr of John Garten, in aplea that they render unto the Plantiffs the sum of seventeenhundred and fifty-two pounds of tobacco showing that John Gartenlate of this county, deceased, in his late will and testamentdated ye 17th of June 1698 gave & bequeathed unto his wife &five children Richard, John Mathew, Catherine and Ruth, one halfof his estate equally to be divided amongst them, which estateappraised amounted to 17,504 pounds of tobacco, the one half isof which is 8,752 and Richard, one of the children being dead,the said 8,752 pounds of tobacco being equally divided betweenthe widow and four children - equal part amounting to 1,782fifths pounds of tobacco for which the said plaintiffs broughtsuit and demand judgement with costs. Richmond County, VirginiaOrder Book #3 p 79 & John Garten 1721 Inventory, WB, same Co.

Their final land sale in Richmond Co., Va was made March 4, 1733when Thos Sims of Lundeburg Parish, Richmond Co., Va sold toWilliam Jordan of same parish and county for 60 Lbs currentmoney of Virginia 100 Acres of land in parish and county afsd"which sd one hundred acres of Land be the same more or lessWilliam Sims Father of the said Thomas Late of the Countyaforesd Dec'd formerly purchased of John Doyle & by his lastwill & testament among Sundry other Legacies gave & Devised tohis sd Son Thomas by the said Will (bearing date the twentyeighth day of Apr one thousand seven hundred &sixteen)...(Signed)Thos Sims. Wit: Alvin Mountjoy, John Naylor,Edmond Collinsworth. Recorded the same day. Richmond County, Va.DB 8-969

This sale apparently was in preparation for Thomas and RebeccaSim' removal to the tract on Rapidan River in Spotsylvaniacounty, for the lease of land by Alexander Spotswood to Thomasand Rebecca Sims October 23, 1734 stated that they already hadbeen settled one year on the tract, which was on the south sideof the river. The terms leased to Thomas Sims, planter, 108Acres in St. Mark's parish, Spotsylvania County, Va, part of40,000 Acres granted to Spotswood, called the Spotswood Tract,and excepted minerals and quarries. The lease was to "Thos" Simsand his assignes for & during the natural lives of Rebecca, thewife, and Thomas ye son of Thomas, senior, for and during thenatural life and lives ofthe longest liver of them, yielding andpayingtherefore yearly and every year of the first fouryears..on the 25th of December, one ear of Indian corn and everyyear after the expiration of the said first years 624 poundsweight of good sound marketable top tobacco...deliveringat aconvenient landingin the county of Spotsylvania." Spots Co., VaDB C (1734-1742); see also note #1.

The terms of the lease also required them to plant within fouryears 300 fruit trees (one third apple trees); the orchard wasto be fenced in; all buildings & fences were to be kept in goodrepair. Thomas Sims was also to provide one laboring hand formaking the water dam or race of any grist mill which Spotswood,his heirs or assigns desired. It also provided that if Rebeccaor Thomas Jr should die before 25 Dec 1775 or before Thos SimsSr., the latter or his assigns could chose the person or personsto take their place. Date of record: 5 Nov 1734 Wits: JohnGrame, John Pettey, & William (X) Morton. Others leasing landthat same day from Spotswood included James Jones Sr, Thomas &James Jones, sons (200Acres), Thomas Pettey, wf Katherine andson Christopher (100 Acres), William, Jeremiah and Elijah Morton(200 Acres), all on S. side of Rapidan River, and John Petty, wfRebecca and son Thomas (100 Acres) on N. side of Rapidan River.Crozier's "Spotsylvania County Records, p 136, 7."

Since Orange County Virginia was formed from the western part ofSpotsylvania in 1734, Thomas Sims is listed in the OrangeCounty, Va tithables of 1734 with 2 white males of taxable age;in 1739, 42 tithables. Orang Co reords show that Thomas Simspurchased land from Timothy Johnson in 1738 and that on July 26,1744 Thos Sims & wf Rebecca of Orange County sold to FrancesWilliams, same county, 200 Acres purchased from Johnston (sic),bounded by land of Timothy Johnson, John Zachary, and Barbers.Tithables. 1739: Orange County Va Families Vol II Wm Brockman c1956 p 135; Orange Co., Va DB 2-355, 6 & 9-184, 186.

Culpeper County was taken from Orange County in 1748. BrumfieldParish was cut off St. Mark's parish by act of assembly in 1752and "included what is now Madison and Rappahannock Counties anda small section of Culpeper". From History of St. Mark's parish,Culpeper County, Virginia by Phillip Slaughter (1877) pp 78, 80.

Culpeper deeds give the following information regarding ThosSims; August 19, 1772 Timothy Holdway & wf Bridgett of Culp toThomas Sims Senr 105 Acres adj Richard Parker's line in severalplaces...on E side Mtn. Run. DB-77.

August 14, 1765 John Sims planter & wf Ann to Thos Sims, all ofBromfield Parish, Culp Co 60 Acres in Bromfield Par, part ofMichael Wilhoite's patent 1728 for 289 Acres...W side of MuddyRun in Adam Wayland's line. (Signed) John Sims, Ann (X) Sims.Wits; John Flynt, James Sims, Thos Sims Jnr. E-70.
Thomas Sims & wife Rebecca conveyed this same land to Wm Scottof Orange Co., September 18, 1766, with John Flynt, Thos SimsJnr., William (X) Clark, Wits. E- 191.

April 19, 1770 Richard Parker & wf Grisel to Thomas Sims 29Acres N. side of Mtn. Run..in sd Sims old line F- 45.; and thesame day Thomas conveyed to Richard parker 29 Acres on S. sideof Mtn. Run - and in exchange of land, same consideration, onopposite side of Mountain Run. F- 45, 46.

May 5, 1783 Thomas Sims of Culpeper deed of gift to dau Amy,wife of Absalom Bobo, gr dau Nancy Powell. Wit: Lewis Graves,Geo. Sims, Wm Powell. L- 288.

August 15, 1783 Thomas Sims to Elijah Sims. Deed of Gift. 85Acres purchased from T. Holdway & obtained by swap of RichardParker except 30 Acres conveyed to Richard sims. Bounded bylands of Richard Sims, Richard Parker, Thos Sims Jr & ElijahSims party thereto & personal items except 1/2 Acre Thos Simsreserves for a burying ground. Not to include any presentbuildings. Wit: Ambrose Coleman, Rchd. Parker, Stephen BinghamM- 203.

Will of Thomas Sims Sr.: "In the name of God Amen I Thomas SimsSener of Brumfield Parish and County of Culpeper being Sick andweak in body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given toGod Therefore Calling to mind the Mortality of my body andknowing that it is Appointed for all men once to die do make andOrdain This my last Will and Testament that is to sayPrincipally and first of all I do give and Recommend my soulinto the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body irecommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian Burialat the Discretion of Executors nothing doubting but at theGeneral Resurrection I shall recieve the same again by theMighty power of God and as touching such worldly Estatewherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I givedevise and Dispose of the same in the following Manner and formImprimis

Item first of all I do Give and bequeath and bequeath to myeldest son Thomas Sims Junr. that part of my Estate that fell tohim by division, and Likewise I do give and bequeath to my sonThomas Sims my negroe woman by name Milley and her Child to himand his heirs Lawfully begotten forever, Likewise my son ThomasSims Juner is to pay Thirty pounds in Gold or Silver to my sonWilliam Sims Deceased Children Six Pounds to each Child as theycome of age and other little Debts comeing against me-

Item Secondly I do give and bequeath to my son James Sims mynegro man Peter and all that fell to him by division to him andhis Heirs Lawfully begotten forever Likewise I do give andbequeath to Elizabeth Sims wife of James Sims my Gilt LookingGlass and I desire at her Death that one of their sons may haveit.

Item Thirdly I do give and bequeath to my son Elijah Sims theland he lives on The Gardon excepted and Likewise a negro boy byname Abraham and all that fell to him by division ti him hisHeirs sons of his first wife Lawfuly begotten forever-

Item Fourthly I do give and Bequeath to my Daughter Amay Bobo anegro woman by name Cate, and all her Children, and I desire ifJohn Sims lives with Absalom Bobo and his wife untill he comesof age they may give him one of the Negro Children if they seeProper, This Negroe woman Cate and all her Children, and allthat fell to her by Division is to her her and her heirsLawfully Begotten forever-

Item Fifthly I do give and bequeath to my two Grand DaughtersLucy and Anna Jones Daughters of my Daughter Sarah Jonesdeceased a Negroe Woman by name Rose and a boy name Peter andall that part that fell to my Daughter Sarah Jones by Divisionto them and Their Heirs Lawfully Begotten forever, This Estatethey are to receive at the day of Marriage or coming to Lawfulage-

Item Sixthly I do give and bequeath to my son Zachariah Sims aNegro man by name Moses and all that fell to him by Division tohim and his heirs Lawfully Begotten for ever-

Item Seventhly I do give and Bequeath to my son Richard Sims aNegro woman by name Dafne, and likewise Thirty odd Acres of Landand all that fell to him by Division to him and his heirsLawfully Begotten forEver-

Item Eighly I do give and Bequeath Ann Graves an Negro woman byname Winney and her Child and all that fell to her by Divisionand her heirs Lawfully Begotten forever

Item Ninthly I do Desire that my Feather bed and Furninure andwhat other things I possess may be sold to the highest bider inthe Family and the Money Rising Therefrom be Equally Dividedamongst all my Children-

And Lastly I do appoint my sons Thomas and James Sims my holeand Sole Executors of This my last will and Testament herebyRevoking all former wills and Declaring this to be my last willand Testament. hereby Revoking all former

In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand Seal This 21stday of April 1784 Thos Sims (L.S.) and Sealed and DeclaredBefore us Jas Sims Edwd Sims William Mason

At a Court held for Culpeper County the 18th day of July 1785
This Last Will and Testament of Thomas Sims decd was Exhibitedto the Court by Thomas Sims one of the Exors therein named andwas proved by the Oaths of Edwd Sims & William Mason two of theWitnesses thereto & Ordered to be recorded And on the Motion ofthe said Executors Certificate is granted them for obtaining aprobate thereof in due form they having made oath thereto andgiven bond & Security according to Law Liberty being reservedfor the other Exor therin named to Qualify when he may think fitTeste John Jameson Cl.C. Cur.

VIRGINIA:
In Culpeper County Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
I, C.T. Guinn, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the saidCounty aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do hereby certifythat the foregoing is a true copy of the will of Thomas SimsSenior, which was probated in this office on the 18th day ofJuly 1785, and is of record in Will Book "C", page 129. Givenunder my hand this 23rd day of November, 1934. Teste: C.T.Guinn, Clerk"

Thos Sims served on a jury Feb 1735 (1736). Orange Co., Va DB I& 2 1735-1739 by J.F. Dorman, p 71. 1705 Rebecca Petty 1683 - 1750 Thomas Petty 67 67 Henry Odell Catherine Garton Richard Simms D. 1803 Elijah Simms Ann Simms Amy Simms Living Smith Absalom Bobo D. 1789 Zachariah Simms D. <1784 Sarah Simms 1724 - 1809 William Simms 85 85 1726 - 1809 Thomas Simms 83 83 Annie Odell 1658 - 1716 William Sims 58 58 It is not known how much land William owned in Richmond Co., but from the fact that legal records refer to him as a planter indicates that he was a man of some means. Interesting tidbits from Williams life indicate that he was a friend of the court and also perhaps an enemy. In 1711 he was paid 600 lbs of tobacco by the court for finding a source of cool spring water for it. Also in 1711 he was charged with breaking Richard Clathermike out of prison and was fined 1000 lbs of tobacco. William had at least 1 boy and 2 girls.

Note: All of the information below was obtained by Lela Prewitt andentered December 19, 1996 by Pamela Hazelett-Burleson.

The earliest known Sims of this line was one William Sims, whowas living in Richmond County, Virginia, according to therecords, before 1707. William Sims and his wife, Amy witnessedthe will of Robert Clark 6 February 1707 in Richmond County,Virginia. Three days previously William Sims, planter, hadconveyed to Cornelius Edmond, carpenter, both of SittenbourneParish, Richmond Co., Virginia, 100 acres about a mile from theRappahannock River, part of a tract formerly belonging to MajorJohn Weire; consideration 4000 lbs of tobacco; John Hanson andSam'l Godwin Wits. The following day "Amy Simms wife of Wmpersonally appeared and released right of dower." ......RichmondCounty, Virginia Records - DB 4-134a, 135

1 February 1708 John Doyle sold to William Simms, both plantersof Sittenbourn Parish, for 4500 lbs tobacco 100 acres, part oftract of 500 acres purchased by Lawrence Barker of RichardWharton "between the land of the sd Simms and the dwellingplantation of the sd Lawrence Barker." Wits: Jos Belfield, Sam'lGodwin. Mary Doyle relinquished her right of Dower......RichmondCo., Virginia Records
DB 5-14,15.

William Simms "for diverse good causes & Considerations"conveyed to John Knight both of Sittenbourne Parish and RichmondCounty forty acres, the line "starting near Richmond CourtHouse....in Barber's line"...."for & during his natural lifeandafter his decease to his wife Mary Knight and after the severalldeceases of the said John and Mary....or the survivor orsurvivors of them during the term of their natural lives." Dated6 December 1710; witnessed by George ?, Jno Keley, Thos.Dickinson; and Amy wife of sd Wm Sims appeared in court same dayand relinquished her right of dower. No mention ofconsideration. ......Richmond County, Virginia Records DB 5-275.Anne, wf of John Knight, releases dower rights in DB 7-64 on 1June 1715.

6 June 1711: "Ordered that William Simms be paid by the countythe sume of 600 lbs of tobacco, it being in consideration of hisfinding good cool spring water at courts for one whole year forthe life of the justices and other persons obliged to attendthere." ........Richmond County, Virginia Records Order Book p5.

A Richmond County court record of interest five years precedingWim Sims' death: "FINES - page 94. p. 3 - At a court held 3 May1711.

present Gent. Justices
Samuel Peachey Charles Barber
Alexander Donaphew William Woodbridge
John Tarpley William Thornton
Downing, etc., fined

"George Downing, William Seale and William Sims being by orderbrought before this Court to answer to what should be objectedagainst them relating to the breaking open the Prison of thisCounty and Rich'd Clathermike making his escape from thence; onHoyton in this behalfe, and the said George Downing, WilliamSerle and William Sims being seperately examined and offeringnothing materall in barr of what was laid to their charge inthis matter are of opinion that they are guilty of the factaforesaid; It is therefore ordered that they be each fined onethousand pounds of tobacco to Our Sovereign Lady, the Queen, andthat each of them give good and sufficient security for theirgood behavior one year."
p 3, Geo. Downing with Henry Berry bound in L 10 sterling tokeep the peace
p 4, William Seale with William Berry bound as above
p 4, William Sims with Thomas Dickenson bound as above."........Orange County Virginia Families, Vol III William EverettBrockman, compiler, Minneapolis, Minnesota, c 1959, p 74 &Fleet's Richmond County Virginia - Vol 17-94.

William Simms was also a witness in 1711 to "Indenture bet. MaryClayton formerly Mary Butler of Sittenbourne Parish, RichmondCounty - binding dau. Fogg as apprentice & servant to Henry &Martha Ravenall......Fleet's Richmons Co., Va Records Vol 17-34.

Another deed of interest: William Sims of SittenbourneParish...."For and in Consideration of the Love and Affestion Ihave and bear unto my Son in Law Matthew Beane of the Parish andCounty afore'd and more...consideration 5 sh....tract of land Inow hold in sd parish and county....part of a greater parcelwhich I now hold out of a Patent formerly granted Thomas Hobsonfor 500 A. dated 26 June 1663....bounded....dividing Landwhereon Barrows Church now stands from ye Land of me the sdSimes....to Lilley's Spring....to outside line of Patent oftencalled and known by by the name of Cloathworkers line....afterhis decease to Mary now wife of ye sd Matthew during her naturallife in the like order....and if they have a child living, Igive the above mentioned land to sd child during its Naturallife at their decease....and after all their deceases of theLongest Liver of the three then I give sd Land to my Son in LawThomas Scott his heirs.....for want of heirs of his body Land toreturn to my next heirs at Law. (Signed ) William (X) Sims
Signed....1st Feb 1714/1715 in presence of Wm Browne, Thomas T.Paty. (no wife relinquished her dower) Acknowledged in Ct 2 Feb1714by William Sims & recorded.......Richmond Co., Va Wills &Inventories, 1709-1717, p 279. Sett.: 1719, p111.

Mathew Been & Mary Lemon, license July 1710 DB #6 p 275 -Marriages Richmond Co., Va 1668-1853 by George H.S. King, 1964

Will of William Sims who died in 1716 in Richmond County,Virginia:

"In the name of God Amen, I William Sims of Sittenbourne Parishin Richmond County Planter being of perfect mind & memory &forseeing ye approach of Death, do make this my last Will andTestament, annulling all former Wills, bequeathing my Soul toGod & my Body to the Earth, and for my worldly Estate, I disposeof in manner following viz:

First I will & bequeath to my Son Thomas Sims and his heirsforever all my Lands & reall Estate lying in Richmond County;and in case my said Thomas dyes without heirs it is my Will & Iaccordingly give and bequeath ye said Lands to the Churchwardens of the Parish of Sittenburn for ye time being - theirSuccessors to be a Glebe (residence of minister) for ye saidParish to ye use of a minister of ye said Parish forever.

Secondly, I Give and bequeath to my Son Thomas, after ye payment- of my just Debts and funerall expenses, all my personal Estateof w kind or nature soever.

Thirdly I appoint & Consitute Capt. Nicholas Smith & GeorgeWhite both of ye Parish of Sittenburn my whole & Sole Executorsof this my last Will & Testament.

Fourthly It is my Will ye Capt. Smith take under his care &tuition my Son Thomas untill he come to the age of twenty years,and if ye sd Smith dye, y then my other Executor shall do yesame. In Witness whereof I have hereto affixed my Seal thistwenty eight day of April One thousand Seven hundred & Sixteen.

his hand
William (M) Sims (Seal)
& mark
Signed, Sealed and declared to be his last Will & Testament andtheir successors being first interlined. John Bagge, Will L.Jison, Edward Hinkley

This will was proved in Richmond County Court the first Day ofAugust 1716 by the Oath of Edward Hinkley one of the Witnessesthereto, and admitted to record.
Teste: M. Beckwith, Cl. of Crt." .........Richmond Co., Va Wills& Inventories, 1709-1717, p 279 Sett.: 1719, p 111
The information below was obtained by Lela Prewitt & enteredinto these notes by Pamela Hazelett-Burleson on April 9, 1997.

The earliest known Sims (also spelled Simms, Syme, Simes, Syms,Symnes, Sim & Semmes) of this line was William Sims, who wasliving in Richmond County, Virginia, according to the records,BEFORE 1707. William Sims and wife, Amy witnessed the will ofRobert Clark, February 6, 1707, in Richmond County.

Three days previously, William Sims, planter, had conveyed toCornelius Edmond, carpenter, both of Sittenbourne Parish,Richmond County, 100 Acres about a mile from the RappahannockRiver, part of a tract formerly belonging to Major John Weire;consideration 4000 lbs of tobacco; John hanson and Sam'l Godwin,wits. The following day "Amy Simms wife of Wm personallyappeared and released right of dower". Richmond County RecordsDB 4-134a, 135.

February 1, 1708 John Doyle sold to William Simms, both plantersof Sittenbourne Parish, for 4500 lbs tobacco 100 Acres, part oftract of 500 Acres purchased by Lawrence Barker of RichardWharton "between the land of the sd Simms and the dwellingplantation of sd Lawrence barker. Wits: Jos Belfield, Sam'lGodwin. Mary Doyle relinquished right of Dower. Richmond CountyRecords DB 5-14, 15.

William Simms "for diverse good causes & Considerations"conveyed to John knight both of Sittenburne parish and RichmondCounty forty Acres, the line "starting near RichmondCourthouse....in Barber's line"...."for & during his naturallife and after his decease to his wife Mary Knight and after theseverall deceases of the said John & Mary for and during thenaturall life of William Knight son of said John and Mary....orthe survivor or survivors of them during the term of theirnaturall lives." Dated December 6, 1710; witnessed by George ?,Jno Kelley, Thos. Dickinson; and Amy wife of sd Wm Sims appearedin court same day and relinquished her right of dower. Nomention of consideration.
Richmond Co., Records DB 5--275 Anne wf of John Knight, releasesdowers rights in deed (7-64). June 1, 1715 in Richmond Co., Va.

June 6, 1711: "Ordered that William Simms be paid by the countythe sume of 600 pounds of tobacco, it being in consideration ofhis finding good cool spring water at courts for one whole yearfor the life of the justices and other persons obliged to attendthere."
Richmond County, Order Book p 5.

A Richmond County court record of interest five years precedingWm. Simms death:
"Fines - page 94. p. 3 - At a Court held 3 May, 1711.

present
Samuel Peachey Charles Barber)
Alexander Donaphew William Woodbridge) Gent. Justices
John Tarpley William Thornton)
Downing, etc., fined

"George Downing, William Seale and William Sims being by orderbrought before this Court to answer to what should be objectedagainst them relating to the breaking open the Prison of thisCounty and Rich'd Clathermiks making his escape from thence; onHoyton in this behalfe, and the said George Downing, WilliamSerle and William Sims being seperately examined and offeringnothing materall in barr of what was laid to their charge inthis matter are of opinion that they are guilty of the factaforesaid; It is therefore ordered that they be each of themfined one thousand pounds of tobacco to Our Sovereign Lady, theQueen, and that each of them give good and sufficent securityfor their good behavior one year.
p 3, Geo. Downing with Henry Berry bound in L 10 sterling tokeep the peace
p 4, William Searle with William Berry bound as above
p 4, William Sims with Thomas Dickenson bound as above."
"Orange County Virginia Families, Vol III William EverettBrockman, compiler, Minneapolis, Minn. c 1959, p 74" & Fleet'sRichmond County Virginia - Vol 17-94.

William Simms was also a witness in 1711 to "Indenture bet. MaryClayton formerly Mary Butler of Sittenbourne parish, Richmondcounty, - binding dau. Fogg as apprentice & servant to Henry &Martha Ravenall...."
Fleet's Richmond co Va Records Vol 17-34.

Another deed of interest: William Sims of SittenburnParish...."For and in Consideration of the Love and affection Ihave and bear unto my Son in Law Matthew Beane of the Parish andCounty aforesd and more...consideration 5 sh...tract of land Inow hold in sd parish and county...part of a greater parcelwhich I now hold out of a Patent formerly granted Thomas Hobsonfor 500 Acres dated 26 June 1663...bounded...dividing Landwheron Barrows Church now Stands from ye Land of me the sdSimes...to Lilley's Spring...to outside line of Patent oftencalled and known by the name Cloathworkers Line...after hisdecease to Mary now wife of ye sd Matthew during her naturallife in the like order...and if they have a child living, I givethe above mentioned land to sd child during its Naturall life attheir decease....and after all the deceases of the Longest Liverof the three then I give the land to my son in Law Thomas Scotthis heirs...for want of heirs of his body Land to return to mynext heirs at Law.
(Signed) William (X) Sims
Signed...1st Feb 1714/1715 in presence of Wm. Browne, Thomas (T)Paty. (No wife relinquished her dower) Acknowledged in Ct 2 Feb1714 by William Sims & recorded.
Richmond Co., Va Wills & Inventories, 1709-1717, p 279. Sett. :1719, p 111.

Mathew Been & Mary Lemon, License July 1710 DB 6- p 275 -Marriages Richmond Co., Va 1668-1853 by George H.S. King, 1964. 1658 - <1715 Amy Clarke 57 57 1694 Mary Lemon Sims Matthew Beane 1347 - 1385 Elizabeth De Bohun 38 38 1703 Rebecca Sims Thomas Scott 1410 Rose Trevor 1380 - 1448 Edward Ad Dafydd 68 68 1380 Angahard Puleston 1358 - 1399 Robert Puleston 41 41 Ann Odell Living Salmons Lowri Grufydd 1888 - 1981 Lewis Harrison Larch 92 92 Edith (Ida) de Gray 1885 - 1967 Effie Mae Coon 81 81 1842 - 1929 Samuel Larch 87 87 1845 - 1914 Margaret Ann Alls 69 69 Thomas Alls Lucinda Beckner 1802 - 1881 John Larch 79 79 1806 - 1864 Charity Ann Myers 58 58 John Myers Rignall Odell Elizabeth Britz 1313 - 24 JAN 1374/1375 Richard "Copped Hat" Fitzalan 1765 - 1848 John Larch 83 83 1769 - <1850 Margaret Long 81 81 John Long 1845 John Allen Lowry 1833 - 1923 Virginia Hively 90 90 1810 - 1891 Thomas Lowry 80 80 1815 - 1885 Rachel Lynch 70 70 1774 Thomas Lowry 1782 - >1850 Frances Harrison Linton 68 68 Sarah Odell 1311 - 11 JAN 1371/1372 Eleanor Plantagenet D. 0365 Echu Mugmedon ~1744 - 1786 William Boggs Lowry 42 42 1749 Elizabeth Pulliam 1688 - 1755 Lazarus Lowry 67 67 1705 Anne Boggs 1650 James Lowry 1655 Mary 1625 Charles Lowry 1685 William Boggs 1760 - 1815 William Linton 55 55 Euphemia 1285 - 1326 Edmund Fitzalan 41 41 Sarah Warner 1786 William Lynch 1786 Rachel Dolan 1748 - 1821 George Lynch 73 73 1750 - 1823 Margaret McCorkle 73 73 1765 Hugh Dolan 1765 Rachel 1832 - 1906 Oshea Wilder Coon 74 74 Delia French 1806 - 1881 Prosser Coon 75 75 Alice De Warren 1810 - 1884 Charilla P. 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Clark 70 70 1848 - 1900 Elizabeth Fraley 52 52 1221 - 1282 Roger de Mortimer 61 61 Hannah Stinchcomb 1828 - 1910 Smith Trent 82 82 1830 - 1931 Rebecca Lambert 100 100 1806 - ~1860 G.S. Clark 54 54 1810 - ~1860 Elizabeth Ellen 50 50 1815 Frederick Fraley 1806 - >1860 Humphrey Trent 54 54 1810 Martha Smith Philip Lambert Rebecca Morgan 1230 - 1301 Maud Braose 71 71 1866 Amanda Clark Sophia Owings 1868 Malissa Clark 1870 Armeina Clark 1875 William Clark 1877 Martha Clark 1878 Amos Clark 1880 Franklin Clark 1881 Noah Clark 1845 Ellen Clark Thomas de Saluzza 1849 Manerva Clark 1852 Emily Bare Clark Hannah Owings 1840 John Zackeray Clark 1822 - >1900 Barbara Fultz 78 78 1841 Dicey Fraley 1845 Eliza Fraley 1849 Amandy Fraley 1852 Jasper Fraley 1855 Caroline Fraley Leugia de Ceva 1857 Eligiah Fraley 1860 William H. Fraley 1637 - 1695 Henry Sherman 58 58 Rachel Owings Mary Cline 1851 Harvey Trent Lorenzo Dow Trent Mary Ann Trent Phebe Evans Leander Trent 1256 - 1286 William De Warrenne 30 30 Martha Trent Clarissa Trent 1880 Missouri Belle Trent 1825 Clarissa Trent Caleb Owings <1754 - >1808 Frederick Trent 54 54 <1754 Lydia 1686 - 1768 William Trent 82 82 1693 Ursula Branch 1649 - 1701 Henry Trent 52 52 1240 - 1293 Joan De Vere 53 53 1657 - 1732 Elizabeth Sherman 75 75 1628 Mary Alexander 1624 Henry Trent 1663 - 1700 Samuel Branch 37 37 Ursula Coode Henry Ridgley 1627 - 1665 Christopher Branch 38 38 1601 Christopher Branch 1602 - 1681 Mary Addie 79 79 1566 - 1605 Lionel Branch 39 39 Robert De Vere 1566 Valentia Sparke 1524 - 1602 William Branch 78 78 Living Shafer Living Shafer Living Shafer Living Shafer 1902 - 1983 Gertrude Elizabeth Mynes 81 81 1524 - 1597 Katherine Jennings 73 73 1503 - 1544 Richard Branch 41 41 1507 - 1556 Elizabeth Beauforest 49 49 1281 - 1345 Henry Plantagenet 64 64 1488 - 1521 John Branch 33 33 1492 Margaret Edwards 1437 - 1488 John Branch 51 51 1437 - 1495 Avise 58 58 1512 Thomas Jennings 1516 Alice Bright William Jennings Charles Ridgley Joan Bostock 1790 John Fultz 1282 - 1322 Maud de Chaworth 40 40 1800 - 1859 Dicy Slone 59 59 Shadrack Slone Katherine Reynolds 1765 - 1845 Obadiah Fultz 80 80 1775 - >1860 Martha Blankenship 85 85 Joseph Blankenship Phoebe Summerfield Obediah Fultz Henry Wiloughby 1710 - 1763 Richard Belcher 53 53 ~1389 - 1436 Isabel de Thorpe 47 47 D. 0356 Muireadhach Tireach Edurus John Hively Sarah Lake 1637 - 1703 Cisly Hutchins 66 66 1611 Isaac Hutchins 1800 Peter Fizer 1800 Nancy Owens 1774 John Owens 1780 Peter Fizer 1750 Henry T. Fizer ? Purdy 1903 - 1966 Ada Agnes Stratton 62 62 Anne Grey 1240 Richard Sanford 1240 Alice Whixall 1220 Richard Sanford 1220 Eleanor Cadigan 1200 - 1249 Ralph Sanford 49 49 1166 Thomas Sanford 1170 Amabil De Cardiff 1140 Richard Sanford 1100 Radulfus Sanford 16 JAN 1243/1244 Edmund Plantagenet 1070 Thomas Sanford D. 1542 Catherine Arundel Howard Executed by Henry, VIII. She was a Queen of England. Catherine Howard, (1520?-42), queen consort of England (1540-42) as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was a granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk. Before Catherine was 20 years old, she had frequent meetings with Henry, arranged by Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester. Henry divorced his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, on July 9, 1540, and married Catherine on July 28. In November 1541 she was accused of immoral conduct both before and during her marriage. She admitted to premarital relations, and her accusers produced witnesses to testify to her adultery. Two of her accused lovers were beheaded in December, and Parliament passed a bill of attainder against her. On February 13, 1542, she, too, was beheaded in the Tower of London. 1040 Thomas Sanford 1150 Richard De Cardiff 1200 Elkin Cadigan 1220 Wolfric Whixall 1240 Hugh De Say 1310 William Boteler 1320 Elizabeth De Holland 1285 - 1328 Robert De Holland 43 43 BEHEADED 1247 - 1302 Blanche of Artois 55 55 Maud Le Zouche 1241 - >1311 Robert De Holland 70 70 1557 Miles Philipson 1256 Elizabeth De Salmesbury Thurstan De Holland 1206 ? De Kellett 1197 - >1242 Robert De Holland 45 45 1201 Cecily De Columbers 1171 Matthew De Holland 1177 Alan De Columbers Patrick Chaworth 1181 Cicily Waleton 1151 William De Columbers 1155 Henry Waleton Barbara Sandes 1154 - 1207 Adam De Kellett 53 53 1158 - 1219 Matilda Singleton 61 61 1134 Osbert De Kellett 1125 - 1185 Uctred Singleton 60 60 ? 1100 - 1170 Huck Singleton 70 70 Patrick Chaworth ? William De Salmesbury 1231 Avina De Notton 1267 - 1314 Alan Le Zouche 46 46 1585 - 1645 Richard Hall 60 60 Eleanore Segrave Roger Le Zouche Eleanor Longespee 1203 - 1270 Alan Le Zouche, II 67 67 1222 - <1296 Helen De Quincy 74 74 Hawise de Lounders 1182 - 1238 Roger Le Zouche, II 56 56 1179 - >1232 Margaret 53 53 1157 - 1190 Alan Le Zouche, II 33 33 1160 Alice De Belmeis 1126 Geoffrey Le Zouche, II Anne Howard 1130 Hawise Fergan 1093 Alan Le Zouche Constance 1096 - 1148 Conan 52 52 Isabella Beauchamp 1091 Maud 1070 Alan Fergent 1072 Ermengarde Henry Beauclerc UNNAMED 1084 Allan Fergant Henry Howard 1110 Phillip De Belmeis 1126 - >1190 Maud De Meschines 64 64 1080 Walter De Belmeis D. 1298 William Beauchamp 1040 Richard De Belmeis 1022 Robert De Belmeis 1100 William De Meschines 1100 Cecilly De Rumilly 1070 - 1128 Ranulph Le Meschin 58 58 1070 - 1136 Lucy 66 66 1050 - 1129 Ranulph Le Meschines 79 79 Samuel Howard Maud D'Avranches 1017 Ranulf Le Meschines Maud Fitzjohn 1021 Alix De Normandy 0992 Ancitel Le Meschines 1001 - 1028 Richard De Normandy 27 27 1025 - 1066 Richard D'Avranches 41 41 1043 Emma De Conteville 0989 Toustien Le Goz 0994 Judith De Montanolier 0963 Ansfred Le Goz Franklin Glenwood Cyrus 0937 Ansfred Rolloson William Beauchamp Muireann Helloe 0885 Rollo Thurstan Bigod 0913 Gerlotte 0921 Godfrey Ginbert 1001 Harlevin De Conteville Harlette De Falaise 0969 Jean De Conteville 1040 Thorold 1044 Miss Malet John Howard ~1333 - 1418 Edmund de Thorpe 85 85 1710 Mary Obedience Clay 1014 William Malet 1072 Robert De Rumilly 1174 - 1264 Roger De Quincy 90 90 Elena Galloway 1155 - 1219 Saher De Quincy 64 64 Margaret De Harcourt 1127 - <1197 Robert De Quincy 70 70 Orabella De Leuchars 1100 - 1158 Saher De Quincy 58 58 Isabel Maudit 1096 - 1140 Maud St. Liz 44 44 Cornelius Howard 1046 - 1111 Simon Saint Liz 65 65 1072 - 1130 Matilda Huntington 58 58 1018 Ranulph 1046 - 1076 Waltheof 30 30 Judith Of Boulogne 1020 - 1055 Siword Biornsson 35 35 Alfled Of Bernicia 0980 - 1045 Bjorn Ulfiosson 65 65 Jeff Salmons 0963 - 1027 Ulf Thorgilsson 64 64 Estrid Svendsdatter Matthew Howard Thorgils Styrjornsson Sigrid Styrbjorn Olafsson Thyra Haraldsdatter Olof Bjornsson Ingeberg Thrandsdatter Bjorn Eriksson 1311 - 1360 William De Bohun 49 49 Queen of Sweden Erik Edmundsson Queen of Sweden 1629 - 1694 Philip Howard 65 65 Erik Refilsson Refil Bjornsson Bjorn Ragnarsson Ragnar Sigurdsson Aslaug Sigurdsdatter Sigurd Randversson Elizabeth De Badlesmere Alfhild Gandolfsdatter Randver Radbertsson Radbert Aud Ivarsdatter Mary Howard Ivar Halfdansson Gauthild Alfsdatter Halfdan Haroldsson Moalda Kinriksdatter Harald Valdarsson Humphrey De Bohun Hildur Heidriksdatter Valdar Hroarsson Hroar Halfdansson Ogne Halfdan Frodasson Sarah Howard Sigris Frodi Friedliefsson Fridleif Frodasson Frodi Dansson Elizabeth "Isabel" Plantagenet Dan Olafsson Olaf Vermandsson Danpi Vermund Frodasson Froid Havarsson Havar Friedliefsson Richard Culpepper Fridleif Frodasson ~1443 Isabel Worsley 1410 - 1470 Otewell Worsley 60 60 1656 George Paul Vandervoort Margaret Culpepper 1860 - 1937 Phoebe Dailey 77 77 1711 - 1774 William Mitchell Clay 63 63 1928 Dorothy Oedia Sowards Thomas Culpepper 1859 - 1935 John Milton Reynolds 75 75 Rutha Chapman 1905 - 1997 Sesco Woodford Sowards 92 92 1836 - 1923 James H. Reynolds 87 87 1807 - 1905 Amy Jefferson 98 98 Princess of Casti Eleanora Ezekiel Reynolds 1784 - 1880 Elizabeth Bushby 96 96 1778 - 1872 Henry Jefferson 94 94 Henry C. and his wife Elizabeth moved from Alexandra Birginai andsettled on Wild Cat Creek, near Barboursville, in Cabell County. Onthe 1st Day of September 1821, he and his wife received deed for one hundred acres of land, for and during the natural lives of Henry Jefferson and Elizabeth, his wife. This was really a lease, for which they were to pay one dollar the first year and twenty dollars per year thereafter. They stayed there many tears, but later moved to a farm that his son Henry Jefferson Jr., owned on Nine Mile Creek. In hislatter years he moved to Seven Mile Creek and lived with hes daughter America and died at her home. He was a Gunsmith and said to have served in the war of 1812. He had a very large family in Cabell County, W.VA.

Copyed from information provided by the Virginia and West Virginia,KYOWVA Genealogical Society,Chapter 15 1830 John Reynolds Tabitha Pierce 1834 Manerva Reynolds 1838 Martha Reynolds 1840 Thomas M. Reynolds 1843 Isaiah Reynolds Living Walker 1275 - 1322 Bartholomew De Badlesmere 47 47 D. 0322 Fiacha Srabhteine 1844 Len Reynolds 1847 Nathan Reynolds 1850 - 1853 Amy Adeline Reynolds 3 3 1853 - 1927 Alford Reynolds 74 74 1855 Sarah Reynolds Abigail Sowards 1857 Elizabeth Reynolds 1833 - 1858 Andrew Hunt 25 25 Polly ? Griffin Hunt 1286 - 1333 Margaret De Clare 47 47 1862 Lewis Hunt Living Walker 1867 Manford Hunt 1870 Watson Hunt 1875 Cordelia Hunt 1861 - 1946 Mary Elizabeth Reynolds 85 85 Griffin Sowards 1865 - 1942 Amy Adeline Reynolds 77 77 1868 - 1902 James Thomas Reynolds 34 34 1868 - 1885 Minerva "Belle" Reynolds 16 16 ~1363 - 3 JAN 1414/1415 Joan de Northwood 1870 - 1943 Julianne Reynolds 72 72 1872 - 1953 Willis Wesley Reynolds 81 81 1875 Ellen Laurine Reynolds Living Cyrus 1877 - 1940 Cordelia Alice Reynolds 63 63 1879 - 1964 Ida Mae Reynolds 85 85 1881 - 1964 Delila Myrtle Reynolds 83 83 Patience Sowards 1816 - 1845 Elizabeth "Betsy" Conner 29 29 1816 - 1871 Benjamin "Greenberry" Chapman 55 55 Thomas P. Dowden 1832 Sarah Watson 1833 - 1916 John Carpenter Dailey 82 82 1880 - 1898 Mary Magdaline Reynolds 17 17 1883 - 1957 Jemima "Chubb" Reynolds 74 74 1888 - 1983 Sarah Ann Reynolds 94 94 Living Foreman 1890 - 1891 James Lacy Reynolds 11m 11m 1892 - 1962 Grover Reynolds 69 69 1825 - 1905 Sallie Sowards 80 80 1895 - 1897 Lucy Ruthie Virginia Reynolds 1 1 Guncelin De Badlesmere 1898 - 1962 Marshall Reynolds 64 64 1900 - 1975 Carrie Violette Reynolds 74 74 1886 Josephine Reynolds Vincent Dailey James "Doke" Stratton Mary C. (Kate) Dailey Jacob (Jake) Dailey Living Foreman Serilda J. Martin 1827 Lucretia Sowards Joan Fitzbernard Hattie K. Bowyer John C. (Cub) Dailey James Marion Reynolds Martin McCallister Thomas J. Martin Willis Reynolds Thomas Martin Josh Dillon Dempsey Beckett Living Salmons Living Salmons 1899 - 1982 Lessie Lamp 83 83 Garnet Morrison Living Moore 1893 - 1985 James Scott Browning 92 92 1905 - 1980 Ruby Dillon 75 75 Richard Chapman 1908 - 1986 Cecil Dillon 77 77 Living Ross Living Dillon Living Gilbert de Umfreville D. 1944 Freeman Dillon 1829 Isaac Sowards 1847 Mary Cyrus Living Salmons Living Bragg 1915 Phoeba Dillon Living Barnett Living Dillon Living Living Dillon 1248 - 1287 Thomas De Clare 39 39 Living Scites Living Picard 1831 George Sowards D. 1997 Opal Dillon 1924 - 1989 Grover Dillon 65 65 Living Schaffer Living Nida Living Living Beckett Living Wellman Julian Fitzmaurice Living Beckett Living Heffner Living Beckett 1839 - 1926 Dorcas Melviny Sowards 87 87 Living Salmons Living Brumfield Living Beckett Living Beckett Emerson Mynes Living Sanders Isabella de Clair James Abbott Living Beckett 1925 - 1997 Wallace A. Reynolds 72 72 1928 - 1970 Naomia Ruth Reynolds 42 42 Living Carter Living Tomlinson 1840 Phoebe Sowards Richard Worsley Katherine Clark Living Browning Living Whitt D. 1425 William de Moleyne Living Griffith Living Ball Living Browning 1923 - 1925 Virgil Lee Browning 2 2 Living Browning Living Browning 1841 - 1928 David Wilson Francis Sowards 87 87 Living Browning Living Browning Living Browning Agnes Tilney Living Browning Living Browning Roscoe Mynes Living Living Richmond Living Wade Living Wade Solomon Sowards Living Wade Living Vickers 1763 - 1815 Alexander Stephenson 52 52 Living Wade Living Wade Living Wade Living Faxton Living Harpold Living Faxton Living Living Faxton Sophia Sowards Living Faxton Humphrey Bourchier Living Corey Adkins Living Cooper Living Cooper Living Cooper Living Cooper Living Harpold Living Cooper Living Cooper 1799 - 1884 Griffin Sowards 84 84 1770 Sarah Ann Ewing 1863 - 1947 Joseph Milroy Lamp 83 83 1864 - 1948 Laura Bell Exline 84 84 1885 Lulu May Lamp 1886 Sanfran Cisco Lamp 1889 Lillie Belle Lamp 1892 Stella J. Lamp 1893 Ira Frankline Lamp 1895 Bessie A. Lamp Living Harpold 1897 - 1983 Clifford M. Lamp 86 86 1823 - 1891 Albert A. Cyrus 68 68 Miliston Sowards 1901 - 1997 Wilmer Lamp 95 95 1902 - 1974 Mabel E. Lamp 72 72 1906 - 1974 Delphia Virginia Lamp 67 67 1841 - 1924 Nancy J. Odell 83 83 1838 - 1924 Jacob Lamp 86 86 1814 Jane Morgan 1806 William Odell William Odell, the son of Joshua Odell and Susannah Davis, was born in about 1806, probably in Harrison County, Virginia (now within West Virginia).   William was apparently married twice during his life.  He married first to a woman named Delila Curl in Virginia.

After his first wife passed away, William married for a second time to a woman named Jane Morgan, also in Virginia.  Jane, who was also a native of Virginia, was calculated to have been born there in 1814.  William and Jane resided on a farm in Tyler County, Virginia (now within West Virginia) for many years. 1797 - 1868 Martha Heeson 71 71 1796 - 1874 Joseph Lamp 77 77 1790 Elijah Cyrus 1954 - 1958 Richard Salmons 4 4 Nelley Sowards 1833 Christine Lamp 1834 Mariah Jane Lamp 1835 Rebecca A. Lamp John Heeson Jane 1763 - 1840 Johann George Lamp 77 77 Elizabeth ? 1788 - 1856 Henry Lamp 68 68 Living Salmons 1791 - 1876 George Lamp 85 85 1794 - 1886 Jacob Lamp 91 91 Jasper Cooper Living Cooper 1800 - 1871 Elizabeth Lamp 71 71 1804 - 1893 Abraham Lamp 89 89 Suzannah ? D. 1793 Johannes Lamp 1678 - 1752 Peter Lamp 74 74 1682 - 1729 Becke Speth 47 47 1704 - 1796 Marcus Jung (Young) 91 91 1878 - 1947 William Thomas Mynes 69 69 1877 - 1961 Laura Billups 84 84 Norman, Lou, Ethel Mynes' Husband 1851 - 1919 Zachariah T. Mynes 68 68 Rebecca Sowards 1849 - 1942 Mary Elizabeth Sims 93 93 Living Salmons Living Salmons 1811 - 1883 Wesley Mynes 72 72 1812 Mahala Mynes 1827 - 1884 Thomas S. Sims 57 57 3 MAR 1720/1721 - 1800 Anna Christina Wolfskehlin Aoife 1825 - 1893 Sarah Young 67 67 1873 - 1917 Sarah (Saddie) Mynes 44 44 George Roberts D. 1940 Allie Mynes Ruth Sowards Allesanah Dowden Franklin Billups 1880 - 1938 Lewis Edgar Mynes 58 58 1883 - 1945 Virginia Mae Mynes 62 62 Living Salmons 1746 - 1816 Johannes Mattheus Jung (Young) 70 70 1887 - 1962 Malinda Elizabeth Mynes 75 75 1885 - 1959 Tura Kathrine Mynes 74 74 1891 - 1962 John Wesley Mynes 70 70 Blanch Johnson Oliver Wilson Hodges Walter Jackson Robinson 1746 - 1797 Thomas Sowards 51 51 Lewis H. Paul Florence Casdorph 1790 - 1879 Jacob Reed Young 89 89 1748 - 1811 Catharina Jung (Young) 63 63 1788 Nancy Ann Stephenson Living Salmons 1852 - 1859 Samuel Sims 7 7 1858 - 1956 Virginia Lewis Sims 98 98 1861 - 1946 Malinda Jane Sims 84 84 1859 - 1859 Octavia E. Sims Eli Thomas Mynes 1755 - 1845 Griffin (Tipsword) Sowards 90 90 Andrew Jackson Henson Cynthia Hughes 1755 Anna Maria Jung (Young) 1811 - 1897 James Young 85 85 1813 - 1867 John Valley Young 54 54 1814 - 1871 Alexander S. Young 57 57 Living Salmons 1825 - 1899 Lewis Norman Young 73 73 1816 - 1866 Margaret Young 50 50 1818 Malinda Young 1829 - 1867 Nancy Young 38 38 1684 - 1761 Thomas Seward 77 77 1826 - 1918 Samuel Early Young 91 91 1760 - 1783 Johann Marcus Jung (Young) 23 23 1830 - 1868 Jacob Young 38 38 1820 America Hart Helen Mariah Hart Rebecca Stephenson Paulina Marshall Franklin Living Salmons James Cyrus John D. Prouse Sarah Jane Stephenson Susannah Thomas Howard was a Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk,, English nobleman and court intriguer during the reign of Henry VIII. The eldest son of Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk, he commanded the English vanguard at Flodden Field and was made earl when his father regained the family dukedom. On the death of his father he succeeded to the dukedom and became the most powerful peer in England. Norfolk led the party opposed to the policies of the lord chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. He favored Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragón and his marriage to Anne Boleyn, who was Norfolk's niece. As Henry's pliant tool, however, he also presided at Anne's trial and execution in 1536. That same year he repressed the rebellion of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a protest against the confiscation of monastic properties, from which he profited handsomely. In 1540 Norfolk arrested Henry's secretary, Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex, who had lost favor with the king. With the execution of his niece, Catherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife, in 1542, Norfolk lost his influence at court. When his son, the poet Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, was arrested for treason, Norfolk was charged with complicity; and was condemned and attainted with his son. His son was executed in 1547, but the subsequent death of the king prevented Norfolk's execution. He remained a prisoner until the accession of Mary I in 1553, when his lands and titles were restored. Martin VanBuren Stephenson 1760 - 1850 John Young 89 89 1767 - 1857 Keziah Tackett 90 90 John Townsend 1793 - 1884 Elizabeth "Betsy" Young 91 91 1794 - 1864 Margaret Young 70 70 1796 - 1864 Charles Young 68 68 Living Sowards 1799 - 1870 John Darien Young 71 71 1802 - 1851 Mary "Polly" Malinda Young 49 49 1757 - 1759 Johannes Jung (Young) 1 1 1708 Mary Soward 1804 - 1849 Nancy Young 45 45 1805 - 1851 Lewis Naylor Young 46 46 1806 Samuel Young 1810 - 1875 Keziah Young 64 64 1835 William G. Mynes 1838 - 1910 Mary Jane Mynes 72 72 1848 Elizabeth Mynes 1840 Matilda M. Mynes Living Mannon 1706 - 1786 Sybilla Jung (Young) 80 80 1842 John Wesley Mynes 1712 Sarah Soward 1846 - 1862 Anderson R. Mynes 16 16 1833 Thomas Paris Sowards 1833 - 1923 Elizabeth Burcham 90 90 1842 James Madison Woodard 1845 Adeline Janey 1892 Grover Cleveland Sowards 1736 - 1834 Conrad Jung (Young) 98 98 11 JAN 1737/1738 - 1762 Anna Margaretta Franciscus 1719 Elizabeth Jung (Young) 1711 - 1749 Hans Matheus Jung (Young) 38 38 Living Mannon 1714 - 1788 George Soward 74 74 1895 Dorothy Ellen Sowards 1896 James Oliver Sowards 1898 Clarence Edward Sowards 1899 Mayme Belle Sowards D. 2001 Living Sowards D. 2001 Living Sowards D. 2001 Living Sowards 1721 Johann Jacob Jung (Young) D. 2001 Living Sowards D. 2001 Living Sowards Thomas Paris Sowards 1714 - 1788 Thomas Soward 74 74 Living Mannon Woodrow Sowards D. 2001 Living Sowards D. 2001 Living Sowards 11 JAN 1711/1712 - 1784 Anna Margarete Feyin Conrad Fey Living Pennington D. 0284 Carbre Leiffechar Lysbeth Muller 1685 Johannes Jung (Young) 1685 Maria ? 1737 - 1797 Johann Jacob Jung (Young) 59 59 Living Cooper Catherine Elizabeth Jung (Young) Living Mannon Mary Jung (Young) 1745 - 1745 Matheus Jung (Young) 8 MAR 1746/1747 - 1747 Anna Christine Jung (Young) 1723 Johann Peter Jung (Young) Mariah Christina Jung (Young) 1712 Jos Peter Jung (Young) John Hopson 1747 Lewis Tackett 1747 Mary 1717 Rebecca Soward Mary Dowden 1675 - 1743 Louis Tacquett 68 68 1685 - 1740 Mary Sarah Spiller 55 55 Living Cyrus 1725 Johannes Jung (Young) Living McComas 1654 William Spiller 1858 Elijah Franklin Cyrus 1795 - 1882 James Isaac Sowards 87 87 1796 - 1883 Nathaniel Squire Burcham 86 86 1808 - 1909 Matilda Caroline Johnson 101 101 William C. Johnson 1718 William Soward 1764 - 1848 John Scott Burcham 84 84 1774 - 1849 Nancy Ann Dowden 75 75 Catharina Brenner 1730 - 1800 Nathaniel Dowden 70 70 ~1730 - >1775 Susannah Catherine 45 45 Living White John Burcham Susannah Mary Burcham 1799 Susannah Burcham John McComas 1722 John Soward 1800 Rachael Burcham 1736 Margaret Hays 1804 Katherine Burcham Jacob Stoker 1806 Sarah Burcham 1807 George H. Burcham Living White 1808 John Scott Burcham Nancy Ann Burcham Mary Ann Martin 1820 William Fleming Burcham ~1640 - 1688 Thomas Seward 48 48 {MD Arch. 16:100} Thomas secured two tracts of land in 1687--"Sewards Hope", 300 acres in Kent Co. on 20 May 1686, and "Molden", 283 acres on 7 Jul 1686 in Kent Co. Also in 1686, the Kent Co. Court appointed him constable for Eastern Neck area of the same Co. In Maryland Calender of Wills page 29 list- Will of Thomas Seward, Kent Co., dated 28th Oct.1687, recorded 19th Apr.,1688 To wife Lucy, extx., plantation (unnamed) absolutely. " son Thomas at 16 yrs.of age, 300 A., "Spread Eagle." " Charles, son of Thomas Hinson, and hrs., 150 A., part of " Sewards's Hope." " Thomas, son of Nicholas Merly, 150 A., part of sd. " Seward,s Hope." Test: Edw. Richardson, Eliza: Pearle. 4. 319. Thomas's wife Lucy appears to have married again after his death several times. She married Griffith Jones shortly after his death and had several children in Kent Co. : Griffit Jr. born 2 Mar 1688, Richard born 5 Mar 1692, Mary born 8 Mar 1697, David born 30 Dec 1700. She later married Henry Green by 1701. Her deed dated 10 Aug 1702 mentioned her two late husbands and two of her children by Griffith Jones- David and Mary. 1764 - 1845 Mathias Jung (Young) 81 81 1828 John Francis Burcham 1832 James P. Burcham 1834 Jesse S. Burcham 1838 Nancy Burcham Thomas Rose 1840 Susannah Burcham Living White 1845 Nathaniel Spencer Burcham Mary Dillon Greer Dillon Edward Howard Lucretia Griffin Emily Mahala Wilson 1846 - 1911 William Fleming Burcham 65 65 Nancy Kingery Armstrong Kingery Mary A. Farbush 1850 - 1937 Matilda Caroline Burcham 87 87 Allen Harvey Living White 1856 Nathaniel "Nat" Sowards 1772 Elizabeth Young 1857 Isaac J. "Big Ike" Sowards John Belcher 1861 Abigail Leuticia Sowards ? Beckett David Sowards 1864 George Sowards Hansford "Hans" Sowards Rufus Sowards John Griffin Sowards Reverend Matilda Sowards Thomas Smith Living Meadows Henry Sowards 23 JAN 1678/1679 - 1739 Elizabeth Frogley America Harris Sarah Woodard ? Berry 1680 - 1757 Ludwig Christophel Franciscus 76 76 1695 - 1773 Anna Margaretta Schwab 77 77 22 FEB 1655/1656 - 29 JAN 1726/1727 Jost Schwab 1663 - >1720 Anna Katharina Wolfhardt 57 57 1774 - 1842 Charles Frances Young 68 68 1610 - 1689 Georg Schwab 79 79 1611 - 1695 Margaretha Zimmerman 84 84 Living Stump 1649 Robert Belcher 1639 - 17 JAN 1711/1712 Johann Georg Wolfhardt 1636 - 1673 Anna Haagen 36 36 1617 Conrad Haagen 1621 Veronica Stroler 1601 - 1670 Georg Johann Wolfhardt 68 68 25 FEB 1616/1617 - 8 JAN 1676/1677 Anna Burkhardt 1776 - 1842 Sarah Morris 66 66 D. 0266 Cormac Mac Art 1556 - 1622 Alexander Wolfhardt 66 66 1557 - 1637 Eleanore Renz 80 80 1523 - 1586 Michael Wolfhardt 63 63 1537 - 1568 Agnes Hunn 31 31 ~1670 Phoebe Isham Living Golightly Veit Burkhardt 1493 - 1560 Thomas Wolfhardt 67 67 1493 - >1563 Barbara Schonwalter 70 70 1505 Michael Hunn 1779 Henry Young 1464 Hans Wolfhardt 1470 - 1563 Jacob Schonwalter 93 93 1470 Anna Romer 1444 Johannes Romer 1529 - 1601 Heinrich Renz 72 72 1615 William Thomas Belcher 1532 - 1620 Maria Grater 88 88 Living Golightly 1506 - 1585 Ulrich Renz 79 79 1509 - 1 MAR 1585/1586 Anna Euphrosine Mogenhardt Living Salmons 1461 - 1520 Peter Mogenhardt 59 59 1485 - 1520 Anna Bock 35 35 1460 Kaspar Bock 1480 - 1547 Ulrich Renz 67 67 1490 - 1559 Agathe Dorsch 69 69 1450 - 1514 Ludwig Renz 64 64 Living Cooper Anna Dowden D. 1513 Walburga 1506 - MAR 1567/1568 Anna Demmler Lucy Living Golightly 1478 - 1536 Michael Demmler 58 58 1482 - 1534 Anna Maerklin 52 52 1450 Nicolaus Maerklin 1460 Anna R? 1423 Nicolaus Maerklin 1427 Anna Schonthalmaier 1395 Jacob Schonthalmaier ~1617 Tabitha Bartlett 1400 - 1465 Paul Maerklin 65 65 Hannah Miller Klara Erlewin 1380 Klaus Maerklin Living Cyrus Living Golightly Klaus Maerklin 1326 Markhart Maerklin 1300 Albrecht Markhart <1450 - 1504 Michael Demmler 54 54 7 FEB 1408/1409 Michael Demmler 1575 Henry Belcher 1735 - 1760 Elizabeth Morris 25 25 1367 - 1442 Michael Demmler 75 75 1350 - 1380 Michael Demmler 30 30 1484 - 1518 Johann Hunn 34 34 Anna Hack 1440 Berchtold Bock Living Golightly D. <1477 Martha Widmann Hartmann Bock ? Grueckler 1365 Heinrich Grueckler William Morris 1577 Mary Mitchell 1330 Conrad Grueckler Peter Mogenhardt Elizabeth ? Hans Megenhardt 1370 - 1447 Itel Megenhardt 77 77 Greth Hafenberg Living ? 1350 - 1405 Heinrich Hafenberg 55 55 D. 1413 Catharina ? Elizabeth Howard 1402 - 1477 Hans Widmann 75 75 Living Saul 1410 - >1477 Adelheid Raem 67 67 <1380 - 1437 Konrad Raem 57 57 Barbara ? 1335 Konrad Widmann Margolt Widmann 1472 Johannes Renz 1470 Ludwig Renz Living Golightly Mary Bird 1500 - 1557 Kasper Grater 57 57 1530 Christine Renz Living Salmons 1532 Ulrich Renz 1534 Regina Appollonia Renz 1535 Georg Renz 1537 David Renz 1539 Vollmar Renz Peter Renz Babar Renz 1785 - 1857 William Jung (Young) 72 72 1547 Euphrosine Renz Living Stump 1549 Jacob Renz Harriet Blanche Sims 1551 Dorothea Renz 1556 Cristoph Renz <1512 Agatha Beuschler 1480 Jacob Graeter Michael Hunn Anna Mary Lilly Eithene Ollamhdha 1797 John Harold Dailey Catherine Sutherland Vincent Dailey Living Salmons 1823 Malinda Jane Cyrus Bertha Walcott Thomas Cooper 1848 UNNAMED 1806 Thomas Cooper 1812 Catherine Rogers Sarah Blake 1765 - 1850 Nathaniel Cooper 85 85 1775 - 1850 Christiana Hughes 75 75 1771 - 1858 John Chapman 87 87 1744 Sallie Abbott 1810 Polly Chapman 1801 - 1877 Maria Wiatt 75 75 Living Salmons 1815 Phebe Chapman 1822 Martha Chapman 1834 Cynthia Chapman 1788 - 1853 George Young 65 65 18 JAN 1739/1740 - 1813 John Chapman ~1735 - 1811 Mitchell Clay 76 76 Military service: Bet. 1774 - 1777, American Revolution 1716 - 1747 Isaac Chapman 31 31 1718 Sarah Cole John Burcham Elizabeth West 1789 - 1850 James Cyrus 61 61 1648 - 1757 Roger Burkum 109 109 Living Salmons Lucia Jones Sarah Eldora Huddleston 1705 - 1772 John Dowden 67 67 22 MAR 1705/1706 - 1794 Mary Gore ~1680 John Dowden ~1680 Esther Ashford James Gore Mary Tomlinson Please notice that Mary Gore does not name her grandson Mannon Gore as a son of Thomas Gore. Her son James 2 Gore Had a son James Manning Gore. The Mannon that is listed could very well be James 3 Mannon Gore, called Mannon.  1 April 1755. As I am incapable of coming up to Annapolis myself I entirely deny the will of my Deceased Husband Groves Tomlinsonus and will take my Chance Agreeable to Act of Assembly. Mary (N) Tomlinson [Some say her mark is an (M)] Witness: Alex Beall. This by my son James Goore  "Know ye that I, Mary Tomlinson, Gentlewoman, for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which I have and do bear to my well Beloved son James Gore, my well Beloved son Thomas Gore and my well beloved daughter Mary Dowden, and my well beloved daughter Rachel Mockbe, all of said county, and my well beloved daughter Elizabeth Roberts of the Colony of Virginia, and my well beloved grandson Michael Ashford Dowden and my well beloved Grandson Mannen Gore and my well beloved granddaughter Mary Roberts and my Granddaughter Mary Roberts Daughter of Edw of Virginia and my Granddaughter Mary Mockbe and for diverse and other considerations me at this present more especially moving have given granted and confirmed and by these presents to give, grant and congirm and make unto my above named children and grandchildren to them and their heirs and assigns forever (the preceding sentence, although a bit confusing, is as my copy reads). Viz. To my son James Gore one negro man named James and one negro women named Sal and my bed and all my furniture by (sic) bed and all the rest of my personal estate except the following legacies, To my son Thomas Gore 41 currency of which he hath already received 23.6.1/2. To my daughter Mary Dowden one Negro man Peter, value 40, and sundry trifles which she hath together with said Negro already received to the amount of 41.1.11. To my daughter Elizabeth Roberts 41 currency of which she hath already received 1.12.6. To my daughter Rachel Mockbe 41 of which she hath already received 20.14.4. To my grandson Michael Ashford Dowden one two year heifer or 20 shillings currency. To my grandson Mannen Gore one two year old heifer or 20 shillings currency. To my granddaughter Mary Roberts 20 shillings currency. To my granddaughter Mary Roberts, daughter of Edward, 20 shillings currency. To my granddaughter Mary Mockbe one two year old heifer or 20 Shillins currency.  All which legacies or such part of them as is not already received to be delivered to them out of my moveable estate in specie by my son James Gore after my decease and not before. In witness whereof I have here unto let my hand and seal this first day of April anno dom 1756  Mary (X) Thomlinson" Witnesses: Wadsworth Wilson, Nathaniel Dowden 1 April 1756. Acknowledged by Mary Tomlinson *Frederick Co., MD, Deed BK. E, pp. 1037-39 1658 Michael Ashford 1794 Sarah Fielder Dowden Rachel Nevill Living Salmons 1612 - 15 JAN 1663/1664 John Nevill Living Marrow 1627 - 1678 Johanna Porter 51 51 1780 - 1827 Joshua Odell 47 47 Joshua Odell, the son of William Odell and Asenath Owings, was born in about 1780 in Maryland.  He was later married in Allegany County, Maryland to a woman named Susannah Davis on 1 April 1802. Susannah, who was calculated to have been born in Maryland in 1783, was the daughter of Ebenezer Davis.  During this same year, Joshua was listed as being a Sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Cochran's First Battalion of the 11th Regiment of Virginia Militia.

On 20 July 1807, Joshua and Susannah purchased 136 acres of land in Harrison County, Virginia (now within West Virginia) from Joseph and Margaret Tetrick.  This land, which was situated at the head of Long Run, cost them $150. Several years later, when the War of 1812 broke out, Joshua fought in the Battle of New Orleans, where he was wounded.  After the War, Joshua returned to Harrison County, where he died during the latter part of 1826.  His widow, Susannah, was last found on the 1860 census of Harrison County living with their son, John.  She was listed as being 77 years of age in this census, and having been born in Maryland. 1783 - >1880 Susannah Davis 97 97 1738 - 1830 William Odell 92 92 William Odell, the son of William Odell and Elizabeth Talbot, was born in about 1740 in Baltimore County, Maryland.  He was later married to a woman named Asenath Owings, the daughter of John Owings and his second wife, Asenath.   Although no record of their marriage has been found, it is thought to have taken place in about 1762 in Baltimore County.  Asenath, who was also a native of Baltimore County, is believed to have been born there in about 1744.

This William Odell is believed to be the same William Odell who was later found in the deed records of Baltimore County leasing 50 acres of land from a man named Walter Smith on 27 September 1765.  This same William also leased another 60 acres of land from Mr. Smith on 11 February 1767.  William, who was described in the documents as being a planter and farmer, was to build a dwelling and plant a 200 tree orchard on the earlier lease.

William and Asenath eventually left Maryland and moved into the State of Virginia, where according to the 1782-1787 list of Virginia taxpayers, they were residing in Hampshire County (now part of West Virginia).  On 12 August 1783, William purchased two tracts of land in Hampshire County from a man named John Kyger.   These tracts, consisting of 453 total acres, were situated along Chestnut Ridge on Allegheny Mountain.  William and Asenath eventually sold these tracts on 20 October 1806, with one going to James and Benjamin Dawson, and the other to Philip Goode.

Shortly after this, William and his family moved to the State of Ohio where they settled in Ross County.  William and his son, Caleb, purchased 80 acres of land in Ross County in 1812, and it is believed that William resided on this farm with Caleb for the remainder of his life.  Although William shows up on both the 1820 and 1830 census returns for Ohio, Asenath does not.  As such, it can only be assumed that Asenath must have passed away prior to 1820.  William, who was shown as being between 90 and 100 years of age on the 1830 census, is thought to have died in Ross County in either late 1830 or early 1831. 1742 Asenath Owings James Fleming William Fleming Living Cooper Elizabeth Hayes D. 1765 John Owings D. 11 FEB 1725/1726 Richard Owings D. 1729 Rachel Roberts Living Salmons 1714 - 1749 William Odell 35 35 William Odell, the son of Thomas Odell and Margaret Beall, is believed to have been born in about 1714 in Prince George's County, Maryland.  His wife's name was named Elizabeth, and according to a number of sources, she was Elizabeth Talbot.  The fact that William and his wife named a son, Talbot Odell, obviously lends some support to this argument.

After their marriage, William and Elizabeth apparently settled near Randallstown in Baltimore County, Maryland, where they acquired several tracts of land.  One of these tracts was "Arnolds Choice," which they purchased on 19 June 1742 from Anthony and Margaret Arnold.  William died intestate in Baltimore County, Maryland in late 1748, and these tracts appear to have been inherited by his oldest son, John, according to old English law.  What ever became of Elizabeth has not been determined. 13 JAN 1714/1715 Elizabeth Talbott 1692 - 1721 Thomas Odell 29 29 Thomas Odell, the eldest son of Thomas Odell and Sarah (Ridgely) Brewer, was born in All Hallows Parish in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on 7 January 1692/93.  He was later married in Maryland to a woman named Margaret Beall.   Although no record of their marriage has been found, it most likely took place in about 1712 in Prince George's County, Maryland.  Margaret, who was born in about 1694 in Maryland, was the daughter of James Bell (Beall) and Sarah Pearce.  She was also the sister of the Sarah Beall who married Thomas Odell's brother, Rignall.

Thomas and Margaret probably resided in Prince George's County, Maryland until at least 1755, the year that Margaret's mother, Sarah (Pearce) Beall Haswell, wrote her will.  This will, which was submitted for probate on 28 November 1761, left Margaret a small legacy of five shillings.  Thomas and Margaret were not residing in Maryland at the time of her mother's death in 1761, however, as they appear to have moved to South Carolina by 1758.

Thomas, as well as his son, John, are found in the land records of South Carolina as owning plantations in the original Berkeley County.  Thomas had a plantation surveyed for him on 18 December 1758, which was situated on Ninety-Six Creek and contained 400 acres.  Although it is believed that Thomas died in South Carolina in about 1763, the actual date of Margaret's death has not been determined.  She too is believed to have died in South Carolina, however. 1694 - >1755 Margaret Beall 61 61 1661 - 1721 Thomas Odell 60 60 Thomas Odell, the earliest known progenitor of our Odell family, is thought to have been born in about 1660 in England. Although the actual date that Thomas immigrated into the Province of Maryland is not known, he may possibly have arrived there as early as 1682. Thomas was later married during the month of April 1691, most likely in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to a widow named Sarah (Ridgely) Brewer. Sarah, who is thought to have been born in about 1664 in Anne Arundel County, was the widow of John Brewer, and the daughter of Henry Ridgely and Elizabeth Howard.

After their marriage, Thomas and Sarah resided within the boundaries of All Hallows Parish in Anne Arundel County. During the years 1694 through 1698, Thomas was described in various Anne Arundel County documents as being one of the three County Coroners, as being a militia officer, and as being one of Her Majesties Justices for that County.

On 6 April 1700, Thomas purchased two tracts of land from James Murray which were located in Baltimore County, Maryland.  These tracts were called "Athel," which consisted of 617 acres, and "Murray's Addition," which consisted of 89 acres.  Both of these tracts were situated north of the Patapsco River on what was called "Hunting Ridge." On 25 March 1701, Thomas bought another tract of land from a man named Robert Bradley.  This tract, which consisted of 800 acres, was located in Prince George's County, Maryland and was called "Darnall's Grove."  It was situated on the west side of the Patuxent River and Collington's Branch of the Patuxent River, near the present town of Upper Marlborough.

Shortly after Thomas purchased "Darnall's Grove," he and his family moved to Prince George's County, where they settled in Queen Anne's Parish. Thomas and his father-in-law, Henry Ridgely, were later elected Vestrymen of Queen Anne's Parish at an assembly held in the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church on 9 April 1705.  During the following year, 1706, Thomas was made a Justice of the Prince George's County Court, and was also appointed a Commissioner for the Upper Marlborough District.  He was later succeeded as a Vestryman for Queen Anne's Parish on 29 March 1714.  Four years later, on 7 May 1718, he sold a portion of the tract called "Athel," and all of "Murray's Addition" to George Bailey for 100 pounds.

Thomas Odell died in Prince George's County in 1722.  His will, which was dated 29 April 1717, was subsequently probated before the Prince George's County Court on 11 April 1722.  In his will, Thomas named his wife, Sarah, as Executrix.  Sarah died in 1727, also in Prince George's County, Maryland. 1665 - 1727 Sarah Ridgley 62 62 William Naylor 1818 Elijah Cyrus 1625 - <1710 Henry Ridgley 85 85 1638 - <1673 Elizabeth Howard 35 35 1601 - 1652 Matthew Howard 51 51 1560 - 1639 Thomas Arundel Howard 79 79 Thomas Arundell of Wardour was born circa 1560 into an ancient Anglo-Norman family. At a young age, with the consent of Queen Elizabeth and with her letters of recommendation to the Emperor he went as a volunteer in the Imperial army to fight the Turks. For his conspicuous gallantry in those wars he earned the soubriquet THE VALIANT. At the battle of GRAN in Hungary 1595 he captured a standard from the Turks with his own hands.

The Emperor Rudolph II thereupon created him, by a unique and remarkable Imperial decree dated the 14th of December 1595, COUNT of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Living Walker Living Salmons 1610 Anne Hall Anne Philipson 1535 Matthew Arundel Howard John Bird Young Margaret Wiloughby 1830 Catherine Cyrus D. 1595 Thomas Arundel Beheaded by King Henry VIII. 1515 Margaret Howard 1479 - 19 MAR 1537/1538 Edmund Howard Joyce Culpepper 1443 - 1524 Thomas Howard 81 81 He was a Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, (1443-1524), English military commander and courtier, the only son of John Howard, 1st duke of Norfolk. He was created earl of Surrey in 1483 when his father was made duke of Norfolk. At the Battle of Bosworth Field, where his father was killed, he was wounded and taken prisoner. As he had fought on the losing side, his titles were attainted and he was imprisoned until 1489. On his release his earldom was restored; he was placed in command of the defense of the Scottish border and soon recognized as the chief general in England. In 1513 he led the forces that defeated the invading Scots at Flodden Field, and in the following year he became duke of Norfolk. When King Henry VIII went to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, Norfolk was left to guard the kingdom. The following year he presided at the trial for treason of his friend Edward Stafford, 3rd duke of Buckingham, on whom he passed a sentence of death. He retired in 1523. He was married to Elizabeth TYLNEY on 30 Apr 1472 in England. 1440 Elizabeth Tilney Living Clay 1420 - 1485 John Howard 65 65 Killed at the Battle of Bosworth 1st Duke of Norfolk, John Howard, also known as Jack of Norfolk (circa 1430-85), English nobleman and military commander, who took part, on the Yorkist side, in the Wars of the Roses. He was knighted by King Edward IV shortly after his accession in 1461, and although he was created a baron by the Lancastrian Henry VI on his restoration in 1470, Howard did not abandon the Yorkist cause; he fought in France for King Edward in 1475. Upon Edward's death in 1483, however, he supported Edward's younger brother, Richard, duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III, who usurped the throne from Edward's son. Richard III made Howard duke of Norfolk and earl marshal of England in 1483. He was killed with Richard in the battle at Bosworth. Henry Howard Katherine Molines 1383 - 1437 Robert Howard 54 54 1828 Elizabeth Cyrus Margaret de Mowbray 1365 - 1436 John Howard 71 71 1359 - 1426 Alice Tendring 67 67 1336 - 1388 Robert Howard 52 52 1339 - 1416 Margaret de Scales 77 77 William Tendring Katherine Mylde 1795 - 1882 Elizabeth Young 87 87 Living Salmons 22 MAR 1364/1365 - 1399 Thomas de Mowbray 1366 - 1425 Elizabeth d'Arundelle Fitzalan 59 59 1827 Martha Cyrus SeeNotes - 1368 John de Mowbray 1338 - <1368 Elizabeth Segrave 30 30 1310 - 1361 John de Mowbray 50 50 ~1312 - 1349 Joan Plantagenet 37 37 John de Mowbray Alicia de Braos Edmund Price Living ? 1306 - 1353 John Segrave 47 47 D. 24 MAR 1398/1399 Margaret Marshall Plantagenet Living Salmons Stephen de Segrave >1830 William Henry Cyrus Alice 1300 - 1338 Thomas Plantagenet 38 38 Alice Hales D. 1240 William Plantagenet De Warren Marguerite of France Mary Louisa Ashley 1207 - 1272 III Henry 65 65 1217 - 1291 Eleanor of Provence 74 74 1167 - 1216 John Lackland 48 48 Elizabeth Living Salmons >1830 Matilda Cyrus 5 MAR 1132/1133 - 1189 Henry II Plantagenet Rebecca Petty 1113 - 1151 Geoffrey V Plantagenet 38 38 D. 1202 Matilda Elizabeth James SeeNotes - 1218 Aymer "Taillifer" de Valance SeeNotes Alice de Courtney 1070 - 1135 Henry Beauclerc 65 65 William's younger brother Henry succeeded to the throne. He was crowned three days after his brother's death, against the possibility that his eldest brother Robert might claim the English throne. After the decisive battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 in France, Henry completed his conquest of Normandy from Robert, who then (unusually even for that time) spent the last 28 years of his life as his brother's prisoner. An energetic, decisive and occasionally cruel ruler, Henry centralised the administration of England and Normandy in the royal court, using 'viceroys' in Normandy and a group of advisers in England to act on his behalf when he was absent across the Channel. Henry successfully sought to increase royal revenues, as shown by the official records of his exchequer (the Pipe Roll of 1130, the first exchequer account to survive). He established peaceful relations with Scotland, through his marriage to Mathilda of Scotland.

Henry's name 'Beauclerc' denoted his good education (as the youngest son, his parents possibly expected that he would become a bishop); Henry was probably the first Norman king to be fluent in English. In 1120, his legitimate sons William and Richard drowned in the White Ship which sank in the English Channel. This posed a succession problem, as Henry never allowed any of his illegitimate children to expect succession to either England or Normandy. Henry had a legitimate daughter Matilda (widow of Emperor Henry V, subsequently married to the Count of Anjou). However, it was his nephew Stephen (reigned 1135-54), son of William the Conqueror's daughter Adela, who succeeded Henry after his death, allegedly caused by eating too many lampreys (fish) in 1135, as the barons mostly opposed the idea of a female ruler. 3 JAN 1647/1648 Paulus Micheil Vandervoort 1032 - 1083 Matilda of Flanders 51 51 1031 - 1095 Robert De Mortain 64 64 >1830 Eliza Cyrus Living ? Maud de Montgomery SeeNotes V Baldwin Richard Ashley 1664 - 1729 Thomas Petty 65 65 D. 1036 IV Baldwin Ogive D. 0988 II Arnolph Susanna 0940 - 0962 III Baldwin 22 22 Mechtild Billung >1830 Nancy Cyrus D. 0965 the Great Arnolph Living Flours John Richard Ashley Alisa 0863 - 0929 II Baldwin 66 66 Alfritha I Baldwin Judith 0823 - 0877 Charles II 54 54 Richildis 1655 Hendrick Michaelse Vandervoort 1755 - >1811 James Sires 56 56 Michael Ashford Dowden Milton Woods SeeNotes Eafa 1580 Paul Vandervoort Living Cooper Judith 0714 - 0768 Duke of Brabant Pepin 54 54 0690 - 0741 Charles Martel 51 51 0690 Botthrude 0635 - 16 DEC 714 Duke of Brabant Pepin Anchises Begga Living Salmons <1730 - <1781 James Syrus 51 51 D. 0641 Arnolph Arnoaldus D. <0601 Oda Living Cooper D. 0750 Ausbert Blithidus Ferreolus Sigmerus D. 0445 Clodio Mary Samples Basina Living Cooper Pharamund Argotta D. 0419 Genebald D. 0389 Dagobert Living Cooper D. 0378 Clodius V Theodomir D. 0350 Richimir II Rachel Camp D. 0360 Hastila D. 0337 Colodomir Alice Dagobert D. 0306 King of Franks Walter Clodius III D. 0272 Bartherus D. 0253 Hilderic Living Cyrus Living Lovejoy Living Cooper D. 0213 Sunno D. 0186 Farabert D. 0166 Colodomir IV Jesse Cyrus Hasilda Marcomir IV Athildis D. 0170 Colius D. 0125 Marius D. 1974 Arviragus Samuel James D. 0195 Art Eaufhear Genissa Living Cooper Cunobelin Theomantius Enoch Nimrod Cyrus Lud Heli Claudius D. 1202 Hameline Plantagenet Weldephus 1812 - 1872 Alvira Jane Young 60 60 Clothary I Welphus Aldemir Living ? 0849 - 26 OCT 899 Alfred the Great <1715 Richard Abbott Ethelbith Ethelred Muchel II Herbert Herman Billung 1823 Lewis Young II Berenger Count of Luxembou Frederick James L. Simms 1079 Matilda of Scotland 1031 - 1093 Malcolm III Caennmor 62 62 Living ? Margaret Abbott Mary Lemon 1001 - 1040 I Duncan 39 39 Aelflaed Jane Adkins 0975 Crinan de Mormaer 1787 Zachariah Simms 0970 Malcolm II 0932 - 0994 Kenneth II 62 62 0897 - 0958 Malcolm I 61 61 0862 - 0900 Donald Dasachtach II 38 38 0836 - 0877 Constantine I 41 41 Nannie Abbott Living ? 0810 Kenneth I Rebecca Dowden 0834 Alpine D. 0819 Achaius D. 0761 Etfenus D. 0604 Eugenius VII D. 0590 Aidanus D. 0501 Goranus Dongardus D. 0387 Fergus II John Abbott Eugenius Nathaniel Dowden Living ? Fincormanchus Donaldus Athirco Ehosius II Elhodius I Corbredus a Caledonian chief who fought Agricola on Mons Graupius A.D. 86, into whose mouth Tacitus puts an eloquent speech Cadallanus ? Richard Abbott Michael Dowden Esther Dowden D. 1604 Amy Popham 1531 - 1607 John Popham 76 76 Speaker of the House of Commons D. 1604 Amy Games Alexander Popham 1513 Jane Stradling 1480 - 1535 Edward Stradling 55 55 D. 1513 Elizabeth Arundel 1455 - 1480 Thomas Stradling 25 25 D. 1485 Janet Mathew James Dowden 1423 - 1478 Henry Stradling 55 55 Elizabeth Herbert 1389 Edward Stradling 1393 Joan Beaufort 1375 - 1447 Henry de Beaufort 72 72 1375 - 1447 Henry de Beaufort 72 72 1375 - 1447 Alice Fitzalan 72 72 1350 - 1403 John Plantagenet 53 53 Katherine Roet 1312 - 1377 Edward Plantagenet 64 64 Living Mynes 1311 - 1369 Philippia of Hanault 58 58 1284 - 1327 Edward of Caernarvon 43 43 Edward II (reigned 1307-27) had few of the qualities that made a successful medieval king. Edward surrounded himself with favourites (the best known being a Gascon, Piers Gaveston), and the barons, feeling excluded from power, rebelled. Throughout his reign, different baronial groups struggled to gain power and control the King. The nobles' ordinances of 1311, which attempted to limit royal control of finance and appointments, were counteracted by Edward. Large debts (many inherited) and the Scots' victory at Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce in 1314 made Edward more unpopular.  Edward's victory in a civil war (1321-2) and such measures as the 1326 ordinance (a protectionist measure which set up compulsory markets or staples in 14 English, Welsh and Irish towns for the wool trade) did not lead to any compromise between the King and the nobles. Finally, in 1326, Edward's wife, Isabella of France, led an invasion against her husband. In 1327 Edward was made to renounce the throne in favour of his son Edward (the first time that an anointed king of England had been dethroned since Ethelred in 1013). Edward II was later murdered at Berkeley Castle by a red-hot poker in his bowels.  His reign was troubled by extravagances. His militarist disasters in Scotland notably at Bannockburn (1314) and the unpopularity of his favourite peers, Gaveston who died in 1312 and Hugh le Despencer 1262-1326, led to his deposition on 21 Jan 1327.  Invested as the first English Prince of Wales in 1301. Acceded: 24 FEB 1308, Westminster Abbey, London, England Interred: Gloucester Cathedral 1292 - 1358 Isabella of France 66 66 1239 - 1307 Edward I of England 68 68 Edward was named by his father Henry III after the last Anglo Saxon king (and his father's favourite saint) Edward the Confessor. Edward's parents were renowned for their patronage of the arts (his mother, Eleanor of Provence, encouraged Henry III to spend money on the arts, which included the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey and a still-extant magnificent shrine to house the body of Edward the Confessor), and Edward received a disciplined education - reading and writing in Latin and French, with training in the arts, sciences and music.  In 1254, Edward travelled to Spain for an arranged marriage at the age of 15 to 9-year-old Eleanor of Castile. Just before Edward's marriage, Henry III gave him the duchy of Gascony, one of the few remnants of the once vast French possessions of the English Angevin kings. Gascony was part of a package which included parts of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the King's lands in Wales to provide an income for Edward. Edward then spent a year in Gascony, studying its administration.   Edward spent his young adulthood learning harsh lessons from Henry III's failures as a king, culminating in a civil war in which he fought to defend his father. Henry's ill-judged and expensive intervention in Sicilian affairs (lured by the Pope's offer of the Sicilian crown to Henry's younger son) failed, and aroused the anger of powerful barons including Henry's brother-in-law Simon de Montfort. Bankrupt and threatened with excommunication, Henry was forced to agree to the Provisions of Oxford in 1258, under which his debts were paid in exchange for substantial reforms; a Great Council of 24, partly nominated by the barons, assumed the functions of the King's Council.   Henry repudiated the Provisions in 1261 and sought the help of the French king Louis IX (later known as St Louis for his piety and other qualities). This was the only time Edward was tempted to side with his charismatic and politically ruthless godfather Simon de Montfort - he supported holding a Parliament in his father's absence.   However, by the time Louis IX decided to side with Henry in the dispute and civil war broke out in England in 1263, Edward had returned to his father's side and became de Montfort's greatest enemy. After winning the battle of Lewes in 1264 (after which Edward became a hostage to ensure his father abided by the terms of the peace), de Montfort summoned the Great Parliament in 1265 - this was the first time cities and burghs sent representatives to the parliament. (Historians differ as to whether de Montfort was an enlightened liberal reformer or an unscrupulous opportunist using any means to advance himself.)   In May 1265, Edward escaped from tight supervision whilst hunting. On 4 August, Edward and his allies outmanoeuvred de Montfort in a savage battle at Evesham; de Montfort predicted his own defeat and death 'let us commend our souls to God, because our bodies are theirs ... they are approaching wisely, they learned this from me.' With the ending of the civil war, Edward worked hard at social and political reconciliation between his father and the rebels, and by 1267 the realm had been pacified.   In April 1270 Parliament agreed an unprecedented levy of one-twentieth of every citizen's goods and possessions to finance Edward's Crusade to the Holy Lands. Edward left England in August 1270 to join the highly respected French king Louis IX on Crusade. At a time when popes were using the crusading ideal to further their own political ends in Italy and elsewhere, Edward and King Louis were the last crusaders in the medieval tradition of aiming to recover the Holy Lands. Louis died of the plague in Tunis before Edward's arrival, and the French forces were bought off from pursuing their campaign. Edward decided to continue regardless: 'by the blood of God, though all my fellow soldiers and countrymen desert me, I will enter Acre ... and I will keep my word and my oath to the death'.   Edward arrived in Acre in May 1271 with 1,000 knights; his Crusade was to prove an anticlimax. Edward's small force limited him to the relief of Acre and a handful of raids, and divisions amongst the international force of Christian Crusaders led to Edward's compromise truce with the Baibars. In June 1272, Edward survived a murder attempt by an Assassin (an order of Shi'ite Muslims) and left for Sicily later in the year. He was never to return on Crusade.   Meanwhile, Henry III died on 16 November 1272. Edward succeeded to the throne without opposition - given his track record in military ability and his proven determination to give peace to the country, enhanced by his magnified exploits on Crusade. In Edward's absence, a proclamation in his name delcared that he had succeeded by hereditary right, and the barons swore allegeiance to him. Edward finally arrived in London in August 1274 and was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Aged 35, he was a veteran warrior ('the best lance in all the world', according to contemporaries), a leader with energy and vision, and with a formidable temper.   Edward was determined to enforce English kings' claims to primacy in the British Isles. The first part of his reign was dominated by Wales. At that time, Wales consisted of a number of disunited small Welsh princedoms; the South Welsh princes were in uneasy alliance with the Marcher lords (feudal earldoms and baronies set up by the Norman kings to protect the English border against Welsh raids) against the Northern Welsh based in the rocky wilds of Gwynedd, under the strong leadership of Llywelyn ap Gruffyd, Prince of Gwynedd. In 1247, under the Treaty of Woodstock, Llywelyn had agreed that he held North Wales in fee to the English king. By 1272, Llywelyn had taken advantage of the English civil wars to consolidate his position, and the Peace of Montgomery (1267) had confirmed his title as Prince of Wales and recognised his conquests.   However, Llywelyn maintained that the rights of his principality were 'entirely separate from the rights' of England; he did not attend Edward's coronation and refused to do homage. Finally, in 1277 Edward decided to fight Llywelyn 'as a rebel and disturber of the peace', and quickly defeated him. War broke out again in 1282 when Llywelyn joined his brother David in rebellion. Edward's determination, military experience and skilful use of ships brought from England for deployment along the North Welsh coast, drove Llywelyn back into the mountains of North Wales. The death of Llywelyn in a chance battle in 1282 and the subsequent execution of his brother David effectively ended attempts at Welsh independence.   Under the Statute of Wales of 1284, Wales was brought into the English legal framework and the shire system was extended. In the same year, a son was born in Wales to Edward and Queen Eleanor (also named Edward, this future king was proclaimed the first English Prince of Wales in 1301). The Welsh campaign had produced one of the largest armies ever assembled by an English king - some 15,000 infantry (including 9,000 Welsh and a Gascon contingent); the army was a formidable combination of heavy Anglo-Norman cavalry and Welsh archers, whose longbow skills laid the foundations of later military victories in France such as that at Agincourt. As symbols of his military strength and political authority, Edward spent some 80,000 on a network of castles and lesser strongholds in North Wales, employing a work-force of up to 3,500 men drawn from all over England. (Some castles, such as Conway and Caernarvon, remain in their ruined layouts today, as examples of fortresses integrated with fortified towns.)   Edward's campaign in Wales was based on his determination to ensure peace and extend royal authority, and it had broad support in England. Edward saw the need to widen support among lesser landowners and the merchants and traders of the towns. The campaigns in Wales, France and Scotland left Edward deeply in debt, and the taxation required to meet those debts meant enrolling national support for his policies.  To raise money, Edward summoned Parliament - up to 1286 he summoned Parliaments twice a year. (Parliament came from the 'parley' or talks which the King had with larger groups of advisers.) In 1295, when money was needed to wage war against Philip of France (who had confiscated the duchy of Gascony), Edward summoned the most comprehensive assembly ever summoned in England. This became known as the Model Parliament, for it represented various estates: barons, clergy, and knights and townspeople. By the end of Edward's reign, Parliament usually contained representatives of all these estates.  Edward used his royal authority to establish the rights of the Crown at the expense of traditional feudal privileges, to promote the uniform administration of justice, to raise income to meet the costs of war and government, and to codify the legal system. In doing so, his methods emphasised the role of Parliament and the common law. With the able help of his Chancellor, Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Edward introduced much new legislation. He began by commissioning a thorough survey of local government (with the results entered into documents known as the Hundred Rolls), which not only defined royal rights and possessions but also revealed administrative abuses.   The First Statute of Westminster (1275) codified 51 existing laws - many originating from Magna Carta - covering areas ranging from extortion by royal officers, lawyers and bailiffs, methods of procedure in civil and criminal cases to freedom of elections. Edward's first Parliament also enacted legislation on wool, England's most important export at the time. At the request of the merchants, Edward was given a customs grant on wool and hides which amounted to nearly 10,000 a year. Edward also obtained income from the licence fees imposed by the Statute of Mortmain (1279), under which gifts of land to the Church (often made to evade death duties) had to have a royal licence.   The Statutes of Gloucester (1278) and Quo Warranto (1290) attempted to define and regulate feudal jurisdictions, which were an obstacle to royal authority and to a uniform system of justice for all; the Statute of Winchester (1285) codified the policing system for preserving public order. Other statutes had a long-term effect on land law and on the feudal framework in England. The Second Statute of Westminster (1285) restricted the alienation of land and kept entailed estates within families: tenants were only tenants for life and not able to sell the property to others. The Third Statute of Westminster or Quia Emptores (1290) stopped subinfeudation (in which tenants of land belonging to the King or to barons subcontracted their properties and related feudal services).   Edward's assertion that the King of Scotland owed feudal allegiance to him, and the embittered Anglo-Scottish relations leading to war which followed, were to overshadow the rest of Edward's reign in what was to become known as the 'Great Cause'. Under a treaty of 1174, William the Lion of Scotland had become the vassal to Henry II, but in 1189 Richard I had absolved William from his allegiance. Intermarriage between the English and Scottish royal houses promoted peace between the two countries until the premature death of Alexander III in 1286. In 1290, his granddaughter and heiress, Margaret the 'Maid of Norway' (daughter of the King of Norway, she was pledged to be married to Edward's then only surviving son, Edward of Caernarvon), also died. For Edward, this dynastic blow was made worse by the death in the same year of his much-loved wife Eleanor (her body was ceremonially carried from Lincoln to Westminster for burial, and a memorial cross erected at every one of the twelve resting places, including what became known as Charing Cross in London).   In the absence of an obvious heir to the Scottish throne, the disunited Scottish magnates invited Edward to determine the dispute. In order to gain acceptance of his authority in reaching a verdict, Edward sought and obtained recognition from the rival claimants that he had the 'sovereign lordship of Scotland and the right to determine our several pretensions'. In November 1292, Edward and his 104 assessors gave the whole kingdom to John Balliol or Baliol as the claimant closest to the royal line; Balliol duly swore loyalty to Edward and was crowned at Scone.   John Balliol's position proved difficult. Edward insisted that Scotland was not independent and he, as sovereign lord, had the right to hear in England appeals against Balliol's judgements in Scotland. In 1294, Balliol lost authority amongst Scottish magnates by going to Westminster after receiving a summons from Edward; the magnates decided to seek allies in France and concluded the 'Auld Alliance' with France (then at war with England over the duchy of Gascony) - an alliance which was to influence Scottish history for the next 300 years. In March 1296, having failed to negotiate a settlement, the English led by Edward sacked the city of Berwick near the River Tweed. Balliol formally renounced his homage to Edward in April 1296, speaking of 'grievous and intolerable injuries ... for instance by summoning us outside our realm ... as your own whim dictated ... and so ... we renounce the fealty and homage which we have done to you'. Pausing to design and start the rebuilding of Berwick as the financial capital of the country, Edward's forces overran remaining Scottish resistance. Scots leaders were taken hostage, and Edinburgh Castle, amongst others, was seized. Balliol surrendered his realm and spent the rest of his life in exile in England and Normandy.   Having humiliated Balliol, Edward's insensitive policies in Scotland continued: he appointed a trio of Englishmen to run the country (ignoring the claim of Robert the Bruce to the Scottish Crown). Edward had the Stone of Scone - also known as the Stone of Destiny on which Scottish sovereigns had been crowned - removed to London and subsequently placed in the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey (where it remained until it was returned to Scotland in 1996). Edward never built stone castles on strategic sites in Scotland, as he had done so successfully in Wales - possibly because he did not have the funds for another ambitious castle-building programme.   By 1297, Edward was facing the biggest crisis in his reign, and his commitments outweighed his resources. Chronic debts were being incurred by wars against France, in Flanders, Gascony and Wales as well as Scotland; the clergy were refusing to pay their share of the costs, with the Archbishop of Canterbury threatening excommunication; Parliament was reluctant to contribute to Edward's expensive and unsuccessful military policies; the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk refused to serve in Gascony, and the barons presented a formal statement of their grievances. In the end, Edward was forced to reconfirm the Charters (including Magna Carta) to obtain the money he required; the Archbishop was eventually suspended in 1306 by the new Gascon Pope Clement V; a truce was declared with France in 1297, followed by a peace treaty in 1303 under which the French king restored the duchy of Gascony to Edward.   In Scotland, Edward pursued a series of campaigns from 1298 onwards. William Wallace had risen in Balliol's name and recovered most of Scotland, before being defeated by Edward at the battle of Falkirk in 1298. (Wallace escaped, only to be captured in 1305 allegedly by the treachery of a fellow Scot and taken to London, where he was executed.) In 1304, Edward summoned a full Parliament (which elected Scottish representatives also attended), in which arrangements for the settlement of Scotland were made. The new government in Scotland featured a Council, which included Robert Bruce. Bruce unexpectedly rebelled in 1306 by killing a fellow counsellor and was crowned king of Scotland at Scone. Despite his failing health, Edward was carried north to pursue another campaign, but he died en route at Burgh on Sands on 7 July 1307 aged 68.   According to chroniclers, Edward requested that his bones should be carried on Scottish campaigns and that his heart be taken to the Holy Land. However, Edward was buried at Westminster Abbey in a plain black marble tomb, which in later years was painted with the words Scottorum malleus (Hammer of the Scots) and Pactum serva (Keep troth). Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Exchequer paid to keep candles burning 'round the body of the Lord Edward, formerly King of England, of famous memory'. 1603 - 1673 James Warner 70 70 1605 Elizabeth Harris Thomas Harris 1642 - 1681 Augustine Warner 38 38 1474 - 1545 John Arundel 71 71 1478 Eleanor Grey ~1732 - 1804 Joshua Ewing 72 72 1454 - 1485 Thomas Arundel 31 31 1453 - 1501 Catherine Dinham 48 48 1421 John Arundel 1423 - 1479 Catherine Chidioc 56 56 1392 - 1423 John Arundel 31 31 1398 Margaret Burghersh 1372 - 1436 John Arundel 64 64 1374 Annora Lambourne 1336 - 1400 John Arundel 64 64 1344 - 1396 Joan Luscote 52 52 Charles Howard Eachtach Donachus 1310 - 1379 John Arundel 69 69 1314 - 1356 Elizabeth Carminow 42 42 1294 - 1379 John Arundel 85 85 1296 Isabella de la Bere 1272 - 1309 John Arundel 37 37 1272 Joan leSoor 1240 - 1280 Reinfred Arundel 40 40 1244 - 1280 Alice de la Hurne 36 36 1208 - 1275 Ralph Arundel 67 67 1212 - 1284 Eva de Rupe 72 72 Eleanor 1180 Renfred Arundel 1150 Margaret Arundel 1190 Richard de Rupe 1214 John de la Hurne 1218 Margaret Fitzjohn 1250 John leSoor 1255 - 1340 Rosea 85 85 1270 John de la Bere 1270 Agnes Tuberville 1278 - >1345 Oliver de Carminow 67 67 1734 Ann Garner 1295 - 1332 Elizabeth Holland 37 37 1240 Roger Carminow 1244 Joanna Dinham 1210 Roger Carminow 1214 Sarah Hornacote 1185 Robert Carminow 1155 Roger Carminow 1129 Roger Carminow 1188 Gervais Hornacote 1200 - 1258 Geoffrey Dinham 58 58 1730 - 1802 James III Stephenson 72 72 1170 - 1221 Oliver Dinham 51 51 1145 - 1204 Geoffrey Dinham 59 59 1121 - 1183 Oliver Dinham 62 62 1088 - 1150 Oliver Dinham 62 62 1092 Agnorie Penthievre 1065 - 1120 Geoffrey Dinham 55 55 Radegonde 1032 Oliver Dinham 1006 Geoffrey Dinham 1008 Orio 1787 - 1857 John Garner Stephenson 69 69 1064 Stephen Earl of Richmond 1066 Hawise of Guingamp 1285 - 1328 Robert de Holland 43 43 Beheaded for fighting against king. 1664 - >1719 Thomas Petty 55 55 1665 Rachel Wilson 1660 - 1698 John Garton 38 38 Martha 1608 - 1663 Thomas Petty 55 55 1639 - 1719 Katherine Morris 80 80 1635 - between 1709 and 1726 William Garton Charity Ann LeMasters 1639 Margaret Angell Lou Foster Strother James Oliver Billups Mel Billups 1816 John Billups Richard Billups Edward Billups Cynthia Billups Thomas Billups Silas Billups John Tackett Pinckney H. Billups 1771 - 1845 Thomas C. Billups 73 73 1777 - 1845 Sally Ann Webster 67 67 1794 - 1854 James Billups 59 59 1796 Margaret Billups 1799 - 1843 Luke Webster Billups 44 44 1801 Richard Billups 1805 Henry Billups 1806 - 1832 Theodoshia Billups 25 25 1808 Thomas Billups 1650 Alexander Stephenson 1820 - 1877 David Billups 56 56 1823 - 1849 Cyrus Jackson Billups 25 25 1746 - 1817 Luke Webster 71 71 1748 Sarah Bagby 1735 - 1822 Edward Billups 87 87 He was born in Kingston Parish, but moved with his parents to Lunenburg County in 1751. It was here that Edward served as a Lieutenant in the Lunenburg County Militia during the American Revolution. The family may have also lived briefly in Crawford County, Ohio (ca.1760).  Edward was married first to Sarah Casey (1737-1795) in 1756. His second marriage was to Mary Howell (Norvell) on 27 August, 1796. Edwardus children are listed below; however, the mother of the last four children has not been proven. They were probably all the children of Sarah.  Edward must have moved at least three times X to Ohio, back to Franklin County and/or Botetourt County, and finally to Montgomery County, where he died in 1822.  *******WILL IN CABELL CO? DEED BK 6 p. 295*******  (Information courtesy of David Chaffin, Huntington, WV via Damon WIlcox) 1735 - 1822 Sarah Casey 87 87 1697 - 1769 Joseph Billups 72 72 1700 - 1770 Margaret Lilly 70 70 1660 - >1709 John Billups 49 49 1662 Mary Glassock John Stephenson 1636 Richard Glassock 1630 - 1662 George Billups 32 32 George Billups came to the Virginia Colony with his two brothers, William and Thomas, from Britain in 1655. He had obtained a Local Grant of Land from the King which reads:  OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH  TO ALL to Whom these presents shall come Greeting  Now Know yee, that I the said Richard Bennett, Esqr. Knight Governor &c. Do give and grant unto George Billups seven Hundred and Fifty acres of land, lying upon the branch of Milford Haven, Beginning at a Dividing point and running up a Creek which divides this land from the land of John Lillies, Southerly three hundred and seventy five pole, west by north eighty pole, North by west a little Northerly one hundred and sixty pole to dividing point first specified. The said land being due unto the said George Billups by and for the Transportation of fifteen persons into the colony&c. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land &c. To be help etc. Yielding and Paying &c. which payment is made on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. Provided &c. dated the 25th of November 1653. (Patent Book 3, p 2)  The plantation he developed is still intact today. It was in or about this same year that he married a lady named Sarah.  It was in Kingston Parish of Gloucester (Now Mathews) County, Virginia, that George settled - on the southwest side of Milford Haven Creek on a branch that would come to be known as Billups Creek. There is still a village in Wales known as Milford Haven. Today, Milford Haven, Virginia is a town and it is assumed Billups and his descendants that named the town in honor of their home. Some of George Billups have inhabited the 750 acre estate since its beginnings.  George Billups was born, ca. 1625, in Wales. However, the efforts of many researchers have been fruitless to uncover details of his early life or his ancestry. In fact, many of the documents to be found in court records and salvaged from Church and plantations are very sketchy at best and often more confusing than helpful. So many intermarriages were occurring - acceptable and common until recent decades - and so many names recurred from generation to generation among cousins, nieces, and nephews, as well as children, that questions faced today will not be easily answered in the future.  (Information courtesy of David Chaffin, Huntington, WV via Damon WIlcox) Sarah 1720 - 1790 Henry Bagby 70 70 1724 Susannah 1669 John Lilly The Birthplace of Lilly Ancestors   About 900 years ago, the Counts of Flanders had a great Castle, and there gradually grew up around this Castle a little town,called Lillie. Count Baldwin the Fifth,   surrounded the Castle and houses with a wall and so established the town of LILLE, FRANCE, the birthplace of our ancestors.    This was in 1030 and in all the years which have followed, LILLE has ever figures prominently in the history of France. Before World War I, it was the headquarters of the First Army Corps, and befor the war, it had a population of 200,000, and had beautiful boulevards and handsome squares, and was a great manufacturing city with many railways. The Germans during the war wrought great damage of about $380,000.00 to the city. French public opinion is intensely bitter over the inhuman treatment accorded the inhabitants of Lille, especially the inhuman treatment to its women and girls. 1672 Elizabeth Billups 1640 John Lilly 1640 Dorothy Wade Richard Billups 1766 James Stephenson 1615 - 1667 Arminger Wade 52 52 Assembly of 1655-1656  This Assembly first met in March 1654-5, and, by adjoumments, on March 10, 1655-56, and December 1st, 1656 (Hening I, 407, 414), There is no complete list of members.  Lancaster: Lt. Col. Moore Fauntleroy, Sir Henry Chicheley, Knt. Northampton: Col. [Edmund] Scarborough. Lower Norfolk: Col. John Sidney, Lemuel Mason, Bartholomew Hoskins, Thos. Lambert, Capt. Richard Foster. James City: Lt. Col. [William] Whittaker, Theophilus Hone, Col. John Flood, Robert Holt, Robert Ellyson. Isle of Wight: Major John Bond, Nicholas Smith, Robert Beazley. Henrico: Thomas Lyggon, Major William Harris. Charles City: Anthony Wyatt, Col. Abraham Wood, Captain Danid Lluellin. York: Lt. Col. George Read; John Page, Joseph Croshaw, Capt. Ralph Langley, Capt. Francis Willis, Nathaniel Bacon, Armiger Wade. Warwick: Thomas Davis. Northumberland: John Trussell. Gloucester: Capt. Thos. Ramsey. Nansemond: Capt. Edward Streeter, John Wilcox, Captain Blake. Elizabeth City: Peter Ashton. "Mr. Holmewood," George Lobb, William Thomas, "Mr. Wright," and Lt. Colonel John Walker (who was soon afterwards a member of the Council), can not, with certainty, be assigned to counties.   Sources: Hening I, 414, 421, 422. "Proceedings" of this Assembly in "Edmund Randolph MS," Congressional Library, printed in Va. Mag. Hist. and Biog. VIII, 388-389. In a number of instances Christian names and counties are not given; but these can be readily and certainly supplied from lists of other years, and from other contemporary records. Records of York County, 1657.

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Armiger Wade York Co., Virginia
Records No. 13. 1706/10. pags. 172/174
12 Aug 1708 Proved: 24 Nov. 1708 At York County, Va.
William Trotter son-in-law too Armiger Wade
(mentioned in his will) Who is this William Trotter that married Ann Wade??

Armiger Wade of Tinkershaws, York County.
To be buried at the discretion of my exor. To My son-in-law William Trotter my planation at Tinkershaws during his life, except 40 acres of the land bounding upon Mr. Anthony Robinson's land and Mr. Kirby's which I give to my son-in-law John Robinson, provided his father, Mr. Anthony Robinson, gives him the same complement of land adjacent; and after my son-in-law William Trotter's decease, the above sd land at Tinkershaws to be equally divided betweeen my two grandson, John and William Trotter, and in case they should die without issue to fall to my daughter Anne Trotter's other children successively. To my grandson William Trotter one negro man named Tom. To my grandson John Trotter one negro man named Harry, living at the lower plantation. To my daughter Ann Trotter on negrom woman named Nell. To my son-in-law Edmund Curtis and Mary his wife, the plantation I now live on with the land I bought of Stephen Pond, until such time that my grandson, Armiger Trotter, reaches 21, but if he should die in his minority then until my grandson Thomas Trotter, son of my daughter Ann Trotter, come of age. My will is that the pklatation I now live on with the land I bought of Stephen Pond, be equally divided between my grandsons Armiger Trotter and Thomas Trotter, when my grandson Armiger reaches 21. but in case either of them should die in their minority or without issuee, then the sd land to fall to the next succeeding heir of my daughter Anne Trotter. To my daughter Dorothy Parsons one negro man named Mingo and one negro girl named Hannah, with her increase. To my daughter Mary Curtis two negro women called Sarah & Jenny, with their increase. To my granddaughter Frances Curtis on negro girl called Sarah and her increase. To my daughter Frances Robinson one negro man called Jack and one negro girl called Frank and her increase, & the side saddle I lent her and one broken horse. To my grandson William Trotter, over and above what is already mentioned one negro boy named James. To my grandson Armiger Parsons one negro boy named Billy, and one old black mare with her colt. To my grandson James Parson a negro boy named Ausy, and the other black mare. To my son-in-law Edmund Curtis and Mary, his wife, one negro man called Great Harry and one young horse which my son-in-law Curtis is now breaking. To my daughter Anne Trotter one young mare about 16 months old. To my son-in-law John Robinson one white mare. To my daughter Elizageth Hayward one young horse about two years old. To my son-in-law Henry Hayward 18. To my son-in-law Humphrey Tompkins 30/-. To my son-in-law James Parsons Jr., 30/-. To my nephew Robert Hayward Sr., one negro woman named Abigail. The remaining part of my personal estate, viz: what money I have in England with the produce of what tobacco I have already shipped or is to ship, and alowhat money, goods, cattle and hogs I have in Virginia to be equally divided between my four daughters, Anne Troter, Dorothy Parsons, Mary Curtis and Frances Robinson. My son i-in-law William Trotter, exor; if he should die before probate of my will, then I constitute my son-in-law James Parson exor.
Witnesses:
Gerard Roberts, Anthony Lamb, Bennet Tompkins. 1617 Dorothy Maulson 1592 Edward Maulson Margaret 1615 - 1644 John Lilly 29 29 1617 Margaret Maulson John Lilly Isabelle Dorlaston John Lilly Mary Willoughby 1768 David Stephenson D. 0157 Con Ceadcatha John Lilly Mary Gabots Thomas Lilly Elizabeth Touts Thomas Lilly Joyce Heming Bromsgrove Lilly ? Owen F. F. Iwen H. Henning Muriel Howard 1714 - 1801 Nathaniel Webster 86 86 1717 - 1754 Margaret Powell 37 37 1687 Aaron Webster Elizabeth 1660 Henry Webster 1664 Charity Roger Powell Homfrey Dorlaston Robert Clarke 1650 - 1725 William Sims 75 75 Records indicate that there was a William Symes who was Constable in Essex County, VA in 1686. Though not proven this is likely to be this William Symes. Essex County is immediately across the Rapahannock River from Richmond County where his son Willian Jr. lived. 1774 Samuel Stephenson Elizabeth Or Mary 1622 - 1682 Thomas Symes 60 60 Very little is known about his life, but records indicate that he preceded his father in death. It is Thomas' and Amy's descendants who migrated to VA and were the ancestors of most of the Sims families of VA. It is not known if Thomas and Amy also came to the new world. 1621 - 1622 Amy Bridges 1 1 From the will of Elizabeth Langton, sister of Amy Bridges, Doynton, County Glouchester. Widow 13-1-1669, is included "I give unto Wm Symes, Thomas Symes, and Richard Symes, sons of my nephew Wm Symes, the sum of 10 Pds apece and I give unto sister Amy Symes the like sum". Richard Allen Billups 1828 - <1928 Mahulda Washington Moore 100 100 1795 - 1869 Samuel L. Billups 73 73 1805 - 1887 Sarah Washington Chandler 81 81 1760 - 1848 Edward Billups 88 88 1771 Susannah Webster Edward Billups 1785 William Stephenson Mary Norvell Joseph Billups Margaret Lilly 1660 - 1709 John Billups 49 49 1662 Mary Glascock 1630 - 1673 George Billups 43 43 1785 - 1858 Olive Moore 73 73 1787 - 1854 Polley Mary Chandler 67 67 1750 Richard Chandler 1750 Elizabeth Carter John Stephenson 1750 William Chandler 1728 Ann Atkinson 1749 - 1823 Samuel Webster 73 73 In the name of GOD Amen I Samuel Webster of Franklin Co., and the State of Virginia being  very sick but in perfect memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men to once to die. Do and  am this my last Will and Testament and first I bequeath my Soul to Almighty GOD who gave it to  me and my body to its kindred Earth to be buried in a Christian Cemetery nothing doubting but at  the General Resurrection I shall receive the same.  And as touching such earthly things as it has pleased GOD to help me with I give and  bequeath to my beloved wife Susannah Webster a Negro girl by the name of Charlette. I give her  half of my land, my house and household and kitchen furniture to be hers for her lifetime and at  her death to be divided equally among my children. All my other property I give and bequeath to  my children namely Susannah Billups, Joseph Price, Jane Webster, Samuel Webster Jr., Betsy  Webster, Daniel Webster, James Webster, William C. Webster, Polly Webster, Reubin Webster  and Deborah Turner, to be equally divided between each and every one of them, except James  Webster, who shall have twenty pounds more than the rest. Where of I hereby acknowledge this to  be my last Will and testament. I also appoint my two closest sons, namely Samuel and Daniel  Webster to be administrators of my Estate as written by my hand this 4th day of January in the  year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Three (1823).   Tests.   John Smith  Samuel Webster, Sr.  Gabsul Wright   3 August 1823 1750 - 1826 Susannah Bagby 75 75 1720 - 1790 Henry Bagby 70 70 His will was written 21 April, 1790 and probated 1 Oct. 1790, Powhatan Co.,  Virg., Book 1, page 186  Other information:  His second wife probably died before him because she is not mentioned in the  will. She was Elizabeth Vaughan, married 2 March 1778 in what is now Powhatan  Co. She had a son from a previous marriage named Henry.  Powhatan became a county in 1779, so these children were probably born in  one of the parent counties of Cumberland or Chesterfield. The births of these  children are recorded in the church records of S. Farnham Parish, which is now  in Powhatan County.  He was on the tithing list of Goochland Co. in 1746, 1747, and 1748.  He left his children lots of slaves in his will.  On a subscription list of Powhatan Co., he paid a bounty of $6 to help pay  for a militia in 1777. (Virg. Mag. of History, Vol. 24, pages 328-329.)  He was on the Powhatan Co., Virginia Tax List for 1783, page 59.   Submitter for duff1: Ramona & Cecil Duff , P.O. Box 95 ,  Hydro, Oklahoma 73048 , Phone 405-663-2334 , Locator:  Silicon Valley PAF Users Group 1724 - 1790 Susannah 66 66 Living Walker Henry Morton Cooper Sarah 1600 Christopher Billups Thomas Stephenson 1636 Richard (or Wilton) Glascock 1601 Robert Glascock ROBERT GLASCOCK received a grant of 200 acres in Elizabeth City, Virginia in  1635, next to Lt. Cheeseman's land. Land could be had almost for the asking  throughout the colonial period, although many a frontier squatter who succumbed  to the lure for land ignored the formalities of getting a deed. In colonial law, land titles rested ultimately upon grants from the crown, and in colonial practice, the evolution of land policy in the first colony set patterns that were followed everywhere save in New England.   In 1614, when Governor Dale gave each of the Virginia Company's colonists three acres for his own use, it was the beginning of a policy that every colonist could claim a plot of his own. In 1618 the company, lacking any assets other than land, promised each investor a fifty-acre "share-right" for twelve pounds, 10 shillings, and each settler a "headright" for paying his own way or for bringing in others. When Virginia became a royal colony in 1624, the headright system continued to apply, administered by the governor and his council.   Lord Baltimore adopted the same practice in Maryland, and successive proprietors in the other southern and middle colonies adopted variations on the plan. As time passed, certain tracts were put up for sale and throughout the colonies, special grants (often sizable) went to persons of rank or persons who had performed some meritorious service, such as fighting the Indians. Since land was plentiful and population desired, the rules tended to be generously interpreted and carelessly applied. With the right connections, persons or companies might engross handsome estates and vast speculative tracts in the interior, looking toward future growth and rising land values.   From the beginning of colonization, the real-estate boomer was a stock figure in American history, and access to power was often access to wealth. But by the early 1700's, acquisition of land was commonly by purchase under more or less regular conditions of survey and sale by the provincial government. The later national land surveys followed the southern practice. The first grants were made without any conditions attached, but at an early date, the crown and proprietors decided to recover something from the giveaways by the levy of annual quit-rents on the land.   In the Middle Ages, such payments would quit (release) the tenant from military  and other duties to his lord. In the New World, however, such levies had no  roots in a feudal tradition, and came to be a point of chronic protest,  resistance, and evasion. But they remained on the books. Some promoters of  colonization, including Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Baltimore, and the Lords  Proprietors of Carolina, had dreams of reviving the feudal manor in the New  World. Their plans went awry, it is commonly said, because of the New World  environment.   With land aplenty, there was little call to volunteer for serfdom. Yet in unexpected ways the southern colonies gave rise to something analogous, a new institution with a new name: the plantation. The word originally carried the meaning of colony. The plantations in the New World were the colonies, and planters were the settlers who had "planted" them. Gradually the name attached itself to individual holdings of large size. If one distinctive feature of the South's staple economy was a good market in England, another was a trend toward large-scale production. Those who planted tobacco soon discovered that it quickly exhausted the soil, thereby giving an advantage to the planter who had extra fields to rotate in beans and corn or to leave fallow. With the increase of the tobacco crop, moreover, a fall in prices meant that economies of scale might come into play: the large planter with lower cost per unit might still make a profit. Gradually he would extend his holdings along the river fronts, and thereby secure the advantage of direct access to the ocean-going vessels that moved freely up and down the waterways of the Chesapeake, discharging goods from London and taking on hogsheads of tobacco.   So easy was the access in fact that the Chesapeake colonies never required a city of any size as a center of commerce, and the larger planters functioned as merchants and harbor masters for their neighbors. If the planter found no volunteers for serfdom, and if wage labor was scarce and expensive, one could still purchase an indentured servant for six pounds to thirty pounds (a substantial sum, which in much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries  would equal perhaps 900 to 5,000 pounds of tobacco), and get his labor for a  term of years. Voluntary indentured servitude accounted for probably half the  arrivals of white settlers in all the colonies outside New England. The name  derived from the indenture, or contract, by which a person could bind himself  to labor in return for transportation to the New World. Usually one made the  contract with a shipmaster who would then sell it to a new master upon arrival.  Not all went voluntarily. The London underworld developed a flourishing trade  in "kids" and "spirits", who were kidnapped or spirited into servitude. On  occasion orphans were bound off to the New World; from time to time the mother  country sent convicts into colonial servitude, the first as early as 1617.   After 1717, by act of Parliament, convicts guilty of certain crimes could  escape the hangman by "transportation." Most of these, like Moll Flanders, the  lusty heroine of Daniel Defoe's novel, seem to have gone to the Chesapeake.  And after 1648, political and military offenders met a like fate, beginning  with some captives of the Parliamentary armies. In due course, however, the  servant reached the end of his term, usually after four to seven years, claimed  the freedom dues set by custom and law--some money, tools, clothing, food--and  took up land of his own. And with the increase of the colonies, servants had a  wider choice of destination.   Pennsylvania became more often the chosen land, "one of the best poor man's countries in the world," in the verdict of a judge at the time. Robert Glascock is known to have had indentured servants, a Peter Rigglesworth turned over to Robert Glascocke in 1637. Peter Rigglesworth, purchased by Robert Glascocke, was a land owner by 1652 when Robert Grimes patenting 300 acres lying at the head of the westernmost branch of Elizabeth River describes it as adjoining Peter Rigglesworth. The westernmost branch of Elizabeth River is now usually called Western Branch. Robert Glascocke received a patent on October 7, 1635 for 200 acres lying in Elizabeth City County adjoining Lieutenant Cheeseman.  The Glascock, like many other Warwick and Elizabeth City County families, somewhat later moved to the Northern Neck of Virginia which lies between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers. Early church services were conducted at the house of Robert Glascock. The citizens of Elizabeth City, Virginia conducted church services at the house of Robert Glascock until a church could be constructed in Elizabeth City. PATENT--ROBERT GLASCOCKE, 200 acres, Elizabeth County, 7 October 1635, p. 290.Being a point of land on South side the Maine river bounded with a great Cr., North upon land of Lieutenant Cheeseman and East into the woods. Transportation of four servants. PATENT--ROBERT GLASCOCKE, 50 acres Low. County New Norfolk, June 10, 1639,page 658. Up the Western branch of Elizabeth River, above land of Jonathan Langworth. Transportation of Iszabella Dixon, a servant. 1600 Deborah Ivey Benjamin Norvell Living Ash Living Ash Living Dailey 1923 Walter G. Dailey 1923 Doris Goodwin 1901 - 1960 Robert F. Dailey 59 59 Joseph Stephenson 1901 - 1985 Glenna Hayes 84 84 Wiley Dailey Anna Burroughs Nathan Dailey Theodore "Ted" Hayes His grandfather Ted Hayes was three-quarters Cherokee Indian.  A white man by the name of Hayes adopted and raised him. Just threw that in for your info. Tennessee "Tenny" Dowler Tennessee Dowler Hayes, Walt's grandmother had two sisters , one named Georgia - one named Arizona.  I never knew if they were going for 48 or not. 1881 - 1943 Don Cameron Goodwin 62 62 1885 - 1976 Lelia Victoria Cooper 90 90 1857 - 1917 Charles Austin Goodwin 60 60 D. 1890 Lora Armstrong Nathaniel Stephenson 1822 - >1880 John E. Goodwin 58 58 John E. first appears in Spencer, W.Va. in the 1870 census. Hewas listed a "hotelkeeper". According to the 1880 Census John and Earlia had 2 adoptedchildren living with them Saffrona Murphy age 9 and Homer Murphy age5. 1826 - 1892 Earli Rollins 65 65 1847 - 1914 James W. Cooper 67 67 D. 1890 Margaret Jane Hickman 1818 - 1877 Lemuel Cooper 59 59 1824 - 1914 Roseanna Baker 90 90 1770 - 1844 Henry Cooper 74 74 Henry Cooper came to the area from Va. in 1804.  He built what is known as the first two story cabin in the area near Mt Zion Church a part of which is a museum in the Parkersburg City Park.  They have on file, a complete history of the Cooper family.  It is cared for by the Daughters of the American Pioneers - of which I am a member.  Hope this helps. Lydia Elizabeth Posey 1856 - 1939 George N. Dowler 83 83 1859 - 1929 Rebecca J. Archer 70 70 1675 - 1768 James Stephenson 93 93 1829 - 1920 John McGarry Archer 91 91 1834 - 1899 Matilda Archer 65 65 1796 - 1875 Jacob Archer 79 79 1802 - 1846 Sarah Grandon 44 44 1747 - 1834 James Archer 87 87 1760 - 1820 Jane Lincicome 60 60 1736 - 1820 Joseph Lincicome 84 84 1738 Jane Paul Ash Living Ash 1672 - 1760 Henry Clay 88 88 1782 Barnard Grandon 1715 - 1793 Patrick Archer 78 78 The first known location in America for the Archer family was in Greene county, Pennsylvania around 1774. It was written in The Tenmile Country  and It's Pioneer Families by Howard L. Leckey,  "The Archer Family settled  east of Fort Jackson about 1774, taking up land in the vicinity of the old double bridge at Morrisville. Captain James Archer was the first to come here. He went back over the mountains and convinced his father to come out with  him.  Patrick Archer, the father, brought with him the whole family, consisting  of five sons and three daughters ... during the troublesome days the Archers played an important part in the defense of the frontier, with at least one sone giving his life in the struggle against the Indians."
It is believed that Patrick Archer came to America as a General in the  British forces prior to the Revolution. He joined the rebel forces as a  General during the Revolution.
Patrick is buried in Bruton Parish Church Yard in Williamsburg, Virginia. source: Robert Jacob Stiers <rstiers403@aol.com>   Children of Patrick Archer are:1784 Cumberland Twp., Washington Co., PA  i. James Archer I, born 1746 in Greene, PA; died 1832 inMonroe, Ohio;  married (1) Jane Lincicome; married (2) Sophia McClelland; married (3)  ii. Joseph Archer, born 1775; married Margaret Church.iii. Micheal  Archer, born 1760; married Elizabeth Wells; died August 1786. iv. Simon Archer, born 1760; married Nancy Church. v. Elizabeth Archer, married William Wells. vi. Mary Polly Archer, married George Fee.vii. Nancy Archerv iii. Jacob Archer  source: Denise Hall Mary Weaver Living 1808 - 1890 James Cooper 82 82 Operated a mail forwarding station at the intersection of the Parkersburg-Elizabeth-Charleston Pikes during the war between the states. His home was an unofficial Confederate Post Office. The house stood in Mineral Wells, WV near where the Hampton Inn is currently located. 1812 - 1904 Lucy Elizabeth Price 91 91 1803 - 1871 Nancy Ann Cooper 68 68 1800 - 1872 John Barnett 71 71 1806 - 1890 Benjamin J. Cooper 83 83 1816 - 1882 Virginia Langfitt 65 65 JAN 1692/1693 - 1777 Mary Mitchell Mendhbh Lithdnearg 1810 Serena Cooper 1810 John T. P. Hall 1811 John S. Cooper Originally owned the famous Cooper Well at Mineral Wells, known for its healing mineral waters. 1812 - 1869 Mary Ann Leach 57 57 1814 - 1862 Mahala Cooper 48 48 1818 - 1904 John Price 86 86 1816 - 1892 Henry Morton Cooper 76 76 1821 - 1899 Dorcas Dawkins 77 77 1859 Elizabeth C. Goodwin 1860 Rebecca Goodwin John Clay 1862 Nancy B. Goodwin 1866 Dudley Vale Goodwin 1821 Mary Curry 1844 Benjamin F. Goodwin 1846 Martha Marceline Goodwin 1848 Granville S. Goodwin Oscar Alan Fits Goodwin 1853 Zadock Goodwin 1854 Louisa Cordelia Goodwin 1788 - 1857 Elijah Rollins 69 69 Richard Howard 1792 - 1845 Lucretia Casto 53 53 1809 Benjamin Rollins 1810 Isaac Rollins 1812 John M. Rollins 1814 Rhoda Rollins 1816 Harrison Rollins 1817 Jonathan Rollins 1818 James W. Rollins 1821 Jemima Rollins 1824 Rebecca Martha Rollins Henry II Clay 1829 Levi Rollins Jabel Bowles Rollins William H. Armstrong G. Perry Stone 1794 - 1855 Zadock Jacob Goodwin 61 61 Little is known about Zadock. he was a farmer and landowner in theHarrison County area. 1803 - 1879 Mary Winters 76 76 1820 Matthias Goodwin 1824 Emily Adeline Goodwin 1826 Martha M. Goodwin 1828 Webb Granville Goodwin Charles Clay 1830 Joseph Johnson Goodwin 1833 Sarah Ann Goodwin 1834 William L. Goodwin 1837 Elizabeth A. Goodwin 1840 Martin VanBuren Goodwin 1842 James Notley Wesley Goodwin 1844 Hiram Goodwin 1847 George Washington Goodwin 1852 Zadock Goodwin 1855 Cordelia E. Goodwin 1638 - 1686 Charles Clay 48 48 1779 - 1826 Matthias Winters 47 47 1783 - 1863 Martha Johnson 80 80 1762 - 1842 John Dobson Goodwin 80 80 John served in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in the Harrison County, Virginia Militia sometime after he moved there from Maryland in 1773. In Judge John Goodwin's book "The Goodwin Families in America" he writes "He served in Captain William Lothar's Company 1778-80 and Captain Joseph Gregory's Company until 1782".

Another researcher has John's middle name as Dobson. I have not confirmed that fact.

John was living in Harrison County in 1831 when he applied for and received a war pension amounting to $80.00 a year. He was placed on the pension roll inOctober 29, 1833 and suspended in 1835. He received a total of $240.00 for his service in the war.

Also listed among Va.(W.Va.) pensioners was Edward Goodwin II and Francis Goodwin who may or may not have been John's brothers. John vouched for each on their pension applications They are listed herein on the chance that they were John's brothers.

John was one of the first Magistrates in Harrison County having been appointed in 1784 by Patrick Henry. He owned a large farm between the mouth of West Fork River and Simpson's Creek near what is now Fairmont. He may have owned other properties in the area as there are copies of 2 deeds belonging to John Goodwin signed by Patrick Henry.

John and his wife Elizabeth are buried in the Morris Cemetery, Simpson District, W.Va. >1768 - 1846 Elizabeth Webb 78 78 1733 - >1782 Jonas Webb 49 49 1735 - 1837 Elizabeth ? 102 102 1700 - 1748 Jonas Webb 48 48 1702 Ann Mills 1676 - 1751 Edward Mills 75 75 1678 Agnes Moore Hannah Wilson 1674 - 1728 John Webb 54 54 1644 - 1698 John Webb 54 54 1623 - 1692 Giles Webb 69 69 1623 Judith Bland 1603 Richard Webb 1582 William Webb 1734 John Edward Goodwin Edward and Tabitha moved from Montgomery County Maryland to Frederick County, Virginia near Winchester around 1798. They walked to Clarksburg, Virginia, (W.Va.) to live with their son, John.

The Goodwin Family surname has been traced to "The Domesday Book " of 1086 AD ordered by William The Conqueror after his conquest of England. The Goodwins were Saxons and were likely oppressed by the Normans.

Various spellings of the name are Gooden, Godwyn, Godwin, Gooden, Gooding, Goodwine and others often changing the spelling of their names even between father and son.

Harold, King of England who lost the Battle of Hastings to William the Conqueror was the son of Godwyn, advisor to King Edward the Confessor. Harold was often called "Goodwyn's Son". The name Godwyn appears on the Bayeaux Tapestry.

Norman oppression and other persecutions led to the migration of many Goodwins to Scotland and on to Ireland.

In Ireland the name became quite common in the Ulster region in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1734 Tabitha Peirson 1752 - 1790 Mary Sarah Goodwin 38 38 1760 - 1851 Francis Goodwin 91 91 There are no known documents that assure the relationship of Francis to John Goodwin. There seems to be more against the fact than for it. While I have found no absolute proof that John and Francis were brothers, I have no absolute proof that they were not.

Francis served in the Revolutionary War and was listed as a "Frontiersman". He was also called an "Indian Spy". He was turned down in his request for a pension. John Goodwin had vouched for him. His application states he was born in the town of Derry, in the County of Londonderry, in the Province of Ulster in that part of Great Britain called Ireland in 1761. Francis says in his application that he is not related to the John Goodwin who vouched for him.

The 1850 Census shows Francis as 90 years old and living in Taylor County, Virginia having been born in Ireland. Living in his household were Nancy Goodwin, 58 years old and born in Virginia,his second wife.. also in his household was Harrrison Goodwin, 25 years old who may have been his grandson, born of Francis II in 1825.

William Harrison Goodwin is listed elsewhere as the son of Francis II.

Francis married Nancy in 1821 when he was 61 and Nancy was 29. If Harrison is Francis' son he was born when Francis was nearly 65 years old and Nancy was 33.

Information on the families of daughters Temperence and Amanda provided by Richard Tull. 1667 William Mitchell 1764 Edward Goodwin 1652 Thomas Moore 1656 Elizabeth Getting 1744 - 1815 Jacob Winter 71 71 Catherine ? 1717 - 1792 Heinrich "Henry" Winter 75 75 1720 Frona Catherine Kaes 1694 - 1757 John Phillip Kaes 63 63 1700 Jacob Winters 1700 Maritie ? 1587 - 1655 John Thomas II Clay 68 68 1759 - 1810 Elijah Rollins 51 51 1763 Elizabeth Macgill 1760 - 1830 William Casto 70 70 1772 - 1838 Martha "Patsy" Parsons 65 65 1729 - 1770 David Casto 41 41 1722 - 1770 Phoebe Gandy 48 48 1694 - 1748 Thomas Gandy 54 54 William Casto Elizabeth Abbott 1783 Hannah Enochs 1558 - 1632 John Thomas Clay 74 74 Rhoda Grandon 1691 Michael Archer Mary ? 1750 - 1855 Enoch Enochs 105 105 Captain in PA militia, Revolutionary War. 1751 - <1835 Rebecca Morris 84 84 1700 - 1782 Henry Enochs 82 82 RESIDENCE: Enoch's run in Northern Virginia. Henry and Elizabeth said to be of English descent.  DEATH: stated as 1783 Hampshire Co. VA came from Gwendolyn Sproat of Hinsdale IL 1989, which is the source of most of early Enoch data. 1710 - 1786 Elizabeth Ross 76 76 Archibald Morris 1695 - 1760 Henry Enochson 65 65 <1730 Susannah Friend Mary Carlton D. 0119 Feidhlimdh Rachtmhar 1670 Enoch Enochs Susannah Noah Enochs 1754 - 1779 William Ross 25 25 D. 1782 Arminella Whitesides 1669 - 1723 Edward Whitesides 54 54 Elinor Traverner 1635 - 1699 Lawrence Whitesides 64 64 D. 1812 David Ross Killed by Indians in Pa. 1653 - 1690 James Ross 37 37 John Clay 1640 Mary Goodnow 1608 Thomas Goodnow Pope indicates that Thomas came from "Shasbury," England ("Shaftesbury" in C.E. Banks's The Planters of the Commonwealth) with wife Jane, son Thomas and sister Ursula on the ship "Confidence" 11 April 1638. It's not indicated whether Ursula was sister of Thomas or of his wife, but since no different last name is listed, she was likely Ursula Goodnow, sister of Thomas. A current atlas of England does not list a town of Shasbury. There is a Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire and a Shawbury in Shropshire which may be possible alternate sites. Pope also indicates that Edmund, named as "brother" in the will of Thomas and a settler of Sudbury, who came on the same ship as Thomas, came from Dunhead, Wiltshire (also not listed in the English atlas) and that John Goodnow, the third brother, also on the ship "Confidence" and a settler at Sudbury, came from Semley, Wiltshire (listed in the atlas). Both these men were called brothers of Thomas in "The History of the Town of Marlborough."   Douglas Richardson, in "English Origins of the Goodenow Family," "The American Genealogist," Vol 52," 1976: pg. 208 has discovered the English roots of the family at Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire and concludes that Thomas was resident of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, near Donhead St. Andrew, at the time of his immigration.  Thomas Goodnow was a proprietor of Sudbury, MA in 1638 and made Freeman there in 1643. Edward and John Goodnow, also of Sudbury, were named Freeman in 1640 and 1641, respectively and are thought to have been brothers of Thomas.  Thomas was one of the petitioners for the establishment of Marlborough in 1656, was there at its incorporation and was Selectman in 1661, 1662 and 1664. His house lot was bounded on the north and west by the highway, on the south by the house lot of Joseph Rice and eastward by Indian Hill or the line of the Indian Plantation. His will, proved in 1664, names his brother Edmund and a John Ruddocke (from "The History of the Town of Marlborough," pg. 372).  Alternate year of death: 1664, per Charles Hudson, "History of the Town of Marlborough, MA," (Boston, 1862), pg. 372. D. 1666 Jane Ruddick 1570 - 1618 Thomas Goodnow 48 48 Thomas "Goodynow's" will is dated 20 Dec. 1617 and was proved 19 March 1618, the inventory having been taken 6 Feb. 1618. It can be found in the Archdeaconry Court of Sarum, Wiltshire and is published in Douglas Richardson's, "English Origins of the Goodenow Family," "The American Genealogist," Vol 52," 1976: pg. 209. He was of Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire at his death. He names Dorothy, Edmund and Ursula as his 3 youngest children, sons Simon, Nathaniel, Thomas, Ralph, John and wife Ursula. It's not known if Ursula was the mother of all his children.

The Goodenow name is found with several spellings. Thomas A. Goodenow was born about 1555 in Dunhead, St. Andrew, Wilts, England. While in England, he married Ursula Fayme (Haynes?) When he was 30 years old, he immigrated to Massachusetts with his wife, son and sister on the ship Confidence leaving London April 11, 1638. He was one of the original founders of Sudbury. D. 1634 Ursula Hayne Mary Cooper Nancy D. Cooper Lydia Cooper Wealthea Cooper Charles Wesley Cooper John Clay John M. Cooper Benjamin Franklin Cooper Moses Husted 1772 - 1860 Nancy Husted 88 88 1773 - 1850 Rachel Husted 77 77 1780 - 1872 James Husted 91 91 1788 - 1839 Tabitha Husted 51 51 1788 - 1828 Mary Magdaline Goodwin 40 40 1790 Zepporah Goodwin 1791 - 1820 Elizabeth Goodwin 29 29 John Howard 1797 - >1843 Tabitha Goodwin 46 46 1799 - 1880 John Goodwin 81 81 1802 - 1889 Comfort Goodwin 87 87 1802 - 1877 William Goodwin 74 74 1804 James Goodwin 1807 - 1891 Mary Goodwin 84 84 1811 Nancy Goodwin 1811 - 1887 George T. Goodwin 76 76 1813 Gabriel Goodwin 1815 - <1842 Sarah Goodwin 27 27 Sarah never married... Sarah Dowden John Wiatt Anna Turner 1800 Solomon Exline Jane Smith 1761 - 1847 John Exline 86 86 1826 - 1862 Elizabeth Exline 36 36 1827 - 1896 George Exline 69 69 1828 Richard Exline 1830 Jane Exline 1834 Solomon Exline William Clay 1837 - 1927 Ebenezer Smith Exline 90 90 1839 Laban R. Exline Susannah Fast 1846 Sarah Exline 1849 Margaret Exline 1787 - 1851 Daniel Exline 64 64 1783 John Exline 1790 Edward Exline 1793 Abraham Exline 1802 Isaac Exline Richard Clay 1735 - 1801 Jurg Oxlein 66 66 1736 Maria Catherine Kraus 1763 Maria Margaretha Exline 1765 Susannah Exline 1771 Barkley Exline 1775 - 1832 George Exline 57 57 1705 - 1768 George Adam Oechslen 63 63 Catharina 1733 Adam Exline 1737 Daughter Oechslen Theopolis Clay 1739 Johannes Oechslen Richard W. Smith Nicholas Kraus Eva Catherine Haas Hieronymus Haas Christina 1812 - 1898 John Trainer 86 86 1814 - 1897 Sarah Ann Baumgardner 82 82 1770 - 1845 Michael Trainer 75 75 Michael Trainer was born in Ireland or Virginia around 1770 and married Margaret (Peggy) Brownlee. She was born about 1780. They first show up in Virginia around 1800. They purchase a house and lot #74 in Wayneboro, Virginia on 27 Sep 1802 for 25 pounds. They had 7 children: William, James Bell, Mary, Adam F., John, Michael D. Jr., and Thomas Harvey Trainer. 1780 - 1835 Margaret Brownlee 55 55 Charles Clay 1779 John Adam Baumgardner Mary Gibson 1714 - 1801 Nathaniel Webster 86 86 Nathaniel Webster was named son-in-law in a land deed from roger Powell, dated 18 Feb. 1739 in goochland co, ( a deed of gift) bk. 3 page 271, 80 acres
.In the parish register of N. Farmham, Richmond, Virginia, the registered birth of Ann webster, 19 Feb. 1740 shows parents, Nathaniel and Margaret webster.
Death: his will is in the goochland co., Virg. will book 19, page 223. the will of his 3rd wife Mary Moore(no issue) is in book 19, page 223.
Other information: the information regarding his second marriage and children came from the Douglas register. being a detailed record of births, marriages, and deaths as kept by the rev. William Douglas from 1750-1797 page 11
Nathaniel webster gave Mary Moore 100 acres and a Negro girl as a wedding gift goochland co., St James parish, page 328. signed 2 Aug 1783.
Nathaniel was on the tithing list of goochland co. for the years 1746, 1747, 1748.
In his will he left his children several Negro slaves. in Mary's will, she left her property to brother Amos lad Moore and to neices and nephews. book 19 page 223, goochland co., dated 15 April. 1805
"William and Mary's", 2nd series, Vol. 7, page 201. 1717 - 1755 Margaret Powell 38 38 1687 Aaron Webster Elizabeth 1660 Henry Webster Charity 1666 - 1753 Roger Powell 87 87 Roger Powell was transported by Thomas Bradley who was given 1087 acres in New Kent co., St peters parish on 23 Oct. 1703 (page 583) he transported 22 persons
St peters parish register gives only a Susannah Powell, D 20 April 1718. was this Margaret's mother or a sister?
"facets of goochland co's. history-commissions, oaths, hangings, and such 1728-1733
grand jury vs. Judith Ballow- one bastard child. Sept. court 1730, found guilty. the courts ordered her to pay 500# of tobacco to the church wardens of St. James parish. the defendant was in luck because roger Powell and Anthony hogat agreed to pay 50# current money each if the child was not chargeable to St James parish. the record did not state why these two men were so generous to Judith.

Goochland co., Virginia, 17 Sept. 1739 roger Powell sold to john pollack 320 acres on the north side of the James rive, on a branch of beaver dam creek. being 400 acres granted to roger Powell by patent, except for the 80 acres given by deed of gift to Nathaiel webster. deed book 4, pages 58-60. john pollack agrees to let roger Powell, his wife and children live there during roger and wife's lifetime Elizabeth Henry Clay 1602 Henry Powell 1602 - 1691 Elizabeth Lloyd 89 89 She married when 44 years of age and had 17 children, the last when she was 68, as recorded on her tombstone at llandyrnog and verified in the registers of llangwyfan parish Simon Powell John Powell John Powell 1619 William Webster 1624 - 1697 Sarah May Richard 73 73 1598 William Webster 1559 Anna Hartleg 1565 Nicholas Hartleg William Carlton Living Cooper 1570 William Webster 1630 - 1689 Nils Larsson Frande 59 59 1638 - 1724 Anna Andersdotter Anderson 86 86 Lars Frande Anne Anders Anderson Christina Coolbrandt James Whitesides 1535 - 1592 John Goodnow 57 57 Margaret 1622 - 1686 John Wilson 64 64 1680 William Salmon 1655 - 1737 John Salmon 82 82 Jane 1630 - 1678 John Salmon 48 48 Elizabeth 1645 - 1727 Hinrich Lamp 82 82 Ebenezer Davis Living Ash Living Dailey 1923 Walter G. Dailey 1720 John Rogers Odell 1923 Doris Goodwin 1901 - 1960 Robert F. Dailey 59 59 1901 - 1985 Glenna Hayes 84 84 Wiley Dailey Anna Burroughs Nathan Dailey Theodore "Ted" Hayes His grandfather Ted Hayes was three-quarters Cherokee Indian.  A white man by the name of Hayes adopted and raised him. Just threw that in for your info. Tennessee "Tenny" Dowler Tennessee Dowler Hayes, Walt's grandmother had two sisters , one named Georgia - one named Arizona.  I never knew if they were going for 48 or not. 1881 - 1943 Don Cameron Goodwin 62 62 1885 - 1976 Lelia Victoria Cooper 90 90 1716 Rachel Odell 1857 - 1917 Charles Austin Goodwin 60 60 D. 1890 Lora Armstrong 1822 - >1880 John E. Goodwin 58 58 John E. first appears in Spencer, W.Va. in the 1870 census. Hewas listed a "hotelkeeper". According to the 1880 Census John and Earlia had 2 adoptedchildren living with them Saffrona Murphy age 9 and Homer Murphy age5. 1826 - 1892 Earli Rollins 65 65 1847 - 1914 James W. Cooper 67 67 D. 1890 Margaret Jane Hickman 1818 - 1877 Lemuel Cooper 59 59 1824 - 1914 Roseanna Baker 90 90 1770 - 1844 Henry Cooper 74 74 Henry Cooper came to the area from Va. in 1804.  He built what is known as the first two story cabin in the area near Mt Zion Church a part of which is a museum in the Parkersburg City Park.  They have on file, a complete history of the Cooper family.  It is cared for by the Daughters of the American Pioneers - of which I am a member. 

--Doris Dailey Lydia Elizabeth Posey 1718 Thomas Odell 1856 - 1939 George N. Dowler 83 83 1859 - 1929 Rebecca J. Archer 70 70 1829 - 1920 John McGarry Archer 91 91 1834 - 1899 Matilda Archer 65 65 1796 - 1875 Jacob Archer 79 79 1802 - 1846 Sarah Grandon 44 44 1747 - 1834 James Archer 87 87 1760 - 1820 Jane Lincicome 60 60 1736 - 1820 Joseph Lincicome 84 84 1738 Jane Catherine Howard 1912 Paul Ash Living Ash 1782 Barnard Grandon 1715 - 1793 Patrick Archer 78 78 The first known location in America for the Archer family was in Greene county, Pennsylvania around 1774. It was written in The Tenmile Country and It's Pioneer Families by Howard L. Leckey,  "The Archer Family settled  east of Fort Jackson about 1774, taking up land in the vicinity of the old double bridge at Morrisville. Captain James Archer was the first to come here. He went back over the mountains and convinced his father to come out with  him.  Patrick Archer, the father, brought with him the whole family, consisting  of five sons and three daughters ... during the troublesome days the Archers played an important part in the defense of the frontier, with at least one sone giving his life in the struggle against the Indians."
It is believed that Patrick Archer came to America as a General in the  British forces prior to the Revolution. He joined the rebel forces as a  General during the Revolution.
Patrick is buried in Bruton Parish Church Yard in Williamsburg, Virginia. source: Robert Jacob Stiers <rstiers403@aol.com>   Children of Patrick Archer are:1784 Cumberland Twp., Washington Co., PA  i. James Archer I, born 1746 in Greene, PA; died 1832 inMonroe, Ohio;  married (1) Jane Lincicome; married (2) Sophia McClelland; married (3)  ii. Joseph Archer, born 1775; married Margaret Church.iii. Micheal  Archer, born 1760; married Elizabeth Wells; died August 1786. iv. Simon Archer, born 1760; married Nancy Church. v. Elizabeth Archer, married William Wells. vi. Mary Polly Archer, married George Fee.vii. Nancy Archerv iii. Jacob Archer  source: Denise Hall Mary Weaver Wanda Lewis 1808 - 1890 James Cooper 82 82 Operated a mail forwarding station at the intersection of the Parkersburg-Elizabeth-Charleston Pikes during the war between the states. His home was an unofficial Confederate Post Office. The house stood in Mineral Wells, WV near where the Hampton Inn is currently located. 1812 - 1904 Lucy Elizabeth Price 91 91 1803 - 1871 Nancy Ann Cooper 68 68 1800 - 1872 John Barnett 71 71 bet 1715/1725 Sarah Odell 1806 - 1890 Benjamin J. Cooper 83 83 1816 - 1882 Virginia Langfitt 65 65 1810 Serena Cooper 1810 John T. P. Hall 1811 John S. Cooper Originally owned the famous Cooper Well at Mineral Wells, known for its healing mineral waters. 1812 - 1869 Mary Ann Leach 57 57 1814 - 1862 Mahala Cooper 48 48 1818 - 1904 John Price 86 86 1816 - 1892 Henry "Harry" Cooper 76 76 1821 - 1899 Dorcas Dawkins 77 77 1722 Mary Odell 1859 Elizabeth C. Goodwin 1860 Rebecca Goodwin 1862 Nancy B. Goodwin 1866 Dudley Vale Goodwin 1821 Mary Curry 1844 Benjamin F. Goodwin 1846 Martha Marceline Goodwin 1848 Granville S. Goodwin Oscar Alan Fits Goodwin 1853 Zadock Goodwin James John Odell 1854 Louisa Cordelia Goodwin 1788 - 1857 Elijah Rollins 69 69 1792 - 1845 Lucretia Casto 53 53 1809 Benjamin Rollins 1810 Isaac Rollins 1812 John M. Rollins 1814 Rhoda Rollins 1816 Harrison Rollins 1817 Jonathan Rollins 1818 James W. Rollins 1713 Sarah Beall 1821 Jemima Rollins 1824 Rebecca Martha Rollins 1829 Levi Rollins Jabel Bowles Rollins William H. Armstrong G. Perry Stone 1794 - 1855 Zadock Jacob Goodwin 61 61 Little is known about Zadock. he was a farmer and landowner in theHarrison County area. 1803 - 1879 Mary Winters 76 76 1820 Matthias Goodwin 1824 Emily Adeline Goodwin Rebeckah Ewing Una 1826 Martha M. Goodwin 1828 Webb Granville Goodwin 1830 Joseph Johnson Goodwin 1833 Sarah Ann Goodwin 1834 William L. Goodwin 1837 Elizabeth A. Goodwin 1840 Martin VanBuren Goodwin 1842 James Notley Wesley Goodwin 1844 Hiram Goodwin 1847 George Washington Goodwin Eleanor Ewing 1852 Zadock Goodwin 1855 Cordelia E. Goodwin 1779 - 1826 Matthias Winters 47 47 1783 - 1863 Martha Johnson 80 80 1762 - 1842 John Doswell Goodwin 80 80 John served in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in the Harrison County, Virginia Militia sometime after he moved there from Maryland in 1773. In Judge John Goodwin's book "The Goodwin Families in America" he writes "He served in Captain William Lothar's Company 1778-80 and Captain Joseph Gregory's Company until 1782". Another researcher has John's middle name as Dobson. I have not confirmed that fact.  John was living in Harrison County in 1831 when he applied for and received a war pension amounting to $80.00 a year. He was placed on the pension roll in October 29, 1833 and suspended in 1835. Hereceived a total of $240.00 for his service in the war.  Also listed among Va.(W.Va.) pensioners was Edward Goodwin II and Francis Goodwin who may have been John's brothers. John vouched for each on their pension applications.  John was one of the first Magistrates in Harrison County havingbeen appointed in 1784 by Patrick Henry. He owned a large farm between the mouth of West Fork River and Simpson's Creek near what isnow Fairmont. He may have owned other properties in the area as there are copies of 2 deeds belonging to John Goodwin signed by Patrick Henry.  John and his wife Elizabeth are buried in the Morris Cemetery, SimpsonDistrict, W.Va.

it is noted in W&M Quarterly, Vol.06, No.2, Supplement, Oct 1897 [Appendex F; The Goodwins of Harrison county, West Virginia] that John Goodwin was a farmer by occupation. He served in the revolution in Capt William Lother's company of Virginia 1778-80, and in Capt. Joseph Gregory's company until 1782. He was pensioned in 1833. (pg 81) >1768 - 1846 Elizabeth Webb 78 78 1733 - >1782 Jonas Webb 49 49 "The History of Harrison county WVa" by Dorothy Davis
"Jonas Webb, 400 acres on Simpson's creek, adjoining lands claimed by the heirs of George Wilson, in the Peddlers right, to include his settlement made thereon in 1773, with a premption of 1000 acres adjoining thereto".
Jonas Webb and Elizabeth Nutter settled on Simpson's Creek, Harrison county Virgina. About 1772, they were the parents of 10-13 children.

Jonas Webb Jr. died late in 1781 or early 1782, because Elizabeth Nutter is shown as a widow with a large family in the 1782 tax list for Monongalia county Va., and also in 1785.
Jonas Webb died intestate, making no former wills. 1735 - 1837 Elizabeth Nutter 102 102 1700 - 1748 Jonas Webb 48 48 1702 Ann Mills Mary Ewing 1676 - 1751 Edward Mills 75 75 1678 Agnes Moore 1674 - 1721 John Webb 47 47 1649 - 1694 John William Webb 45 45 1623 - 1692 Giles Webb 69 69 1623 - 1673 Judith Bland 50 50 1603 Richard Webb 1582 - 1655 William Micajah Webb 73 73 Merchant in Norfolk Va.
Settled at the Isle of Pines and later moved to Norfolk. 1734 John Edward Goodwin Edward and Tabitha moved from Montgomery County Maryland to Frederick County, Virginia near Winchester around 1798. They walked to Clarksburg, Virginia, (W.Va.) to live with their son, John.  The Goodwin Family surname has been traced to "The Domesday Book " of 1086 AD ordered by William The Conqueror after his conquest of England. The Goodwins were Saxons and were likely oppressed by the Normans.  Various spellings of the name are Gooden, Godwyn, Godwin, Gooden,Gooding, Goodwine and others often changing the spelling of their names even between father and son.  Norman oppression and other persecutions led to the migration of many Goodwins to Scotland and on to Ireland.  In Ireland the name became quite common in the Ulster region in the16th and 17th centuries. 1734 Tabitha Agnes Ewing 1752 Mary Sarah Goodwin 1760 Francis Goodwin 1764 Edward Goodwin 1652 Thomas Moore 1656 Elizabeth Getting 1744 - 1815 Jacob Winter 71 71 Catherine ? 1717 - 1792 Heinrich "Henry" Winter 75 75 1720 Frona Catherine Kaes 1694 - 1757 John Phillip Kaes 63 63 Hannah Ewing 1700 Jacob Winters 1700 Maritie ? 1759 - 1810 Elijah Rollins 51 51 1763 Elizabeth Macgill 1760 - 1830 William Casto 70 70 1772 - 1838 Martha "Patsy" Parsons 65 65 1729 - 1770 David Casto 41 41 Moved to Virginia (now W.V) taking 5 children with them, leaving Catherine with Martha Casto Harris, presumably his sister. 1722 - 1770 Phoebe Gandy 48 48 1694 - 1748 Thomas Gandy 54 54 1660 - 1750 William Casto 90 90 Shared land in Salem Co. with James Paget in 1718, was constable in Maurice River area in 1731, purchased 63 1/2 acres at ScrubNeck, in 1733 from Edward Lummis. Aaron Ewing 1688 Elizabeth Abbott 1783 Hannah Enochs Rhoda Grandon 1691 Michael Archer Mary ? 1750 - 1855 Enoch Enochs 105 105 Captain in PA militia, Revolutionary War. 1751 - <1835 Rebecca Morris 84 84 1700 - 1782 Henry Enochs 82 82 RESIDENCE: Enoch's run in Northern Virginia. Henry and Elizabeth said to be of English descent.  DEATH: stated as 1783 Hampshire Co. VA came from Gwendolyn Sproat of Hinsdale IL 1989, which is the source of most of early Enoch data. 1710 - 1786 Elizabeth Ross 76 76 Robert Morris According to Harry Enoch of Lexington, Kentucky, and William A. Archer of Woodsfield, Ohio, Robert Morris was the only adult male Morris in Hampshire County, Virginia from 1752 to 1763. As far as they can determine, this is the father of Archibald, Basil, and Rebecca Morris.

Between the years of 1749 to 1752, George Washington worked as a professional land surveyor. During that time, he made around 190 surveys. He surveyed land for a Robert "Morrice" in Frederick County, Virginia in 1752. As far as we can tell, this is the same Robert Morris. Below is a transcript of the deed for this property--

DEED H-118
The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia to all to whom this presents Writing shall comence greeting Know Ye for good cause for and in consideration of the compensation to me paid and for the annual rent here after received I have given grant and confirmed and by these presents for me my Heirs and asigns do give grant and confirm into Robert Morrice of the County of Frederick a certain tract vacant and ungranted land in the said county County about a mile above the mouth of Great Cacapehon bounded as by a survey there made by Mr. George Washington as followeth Beginning two ash trees an a hoopwood tree near the Creek and Extending <o 55 W. one hundred and ninety Poles to two Hiccorys on the side of a mountain, thence <o 20 E' Eighty four Poles to two Lynn trees and a Mullberry on the Creek side thence up several courses and meanders there of <o 17 E' Seventy Poles <o E. Twenty four Poles <o 37 W' Forty six Poles <o. 48.50 E' Fifty Poles <o 37.30 E. Fifty two Poles, <o. 26 E. Fifty Poles <o 58 W' Forty Poles to the Beginning Containing Sixty three Acres together with all Rights Members and Appertenances the in belonging,Royall, Mines Excepted and a full third part of all Lead Copper Tinn Coals from mines and ore that shall be found thereon to have and to hold the said sixty three acres of land Together with all Rights to Profits and Benefits to same belonging or in any way Appertaining Except before Excepted to Him the said Robert Morrice his Heirs and Asigns for Ever He the said Robert Morrice his Heirs and Asigns therefore Yeilding Paying to me my Heirs or Asigns or to my certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents or to certain Attorney or Attorneys of my Heirs or assigns Proprietors of the Northern Neck Yearly and every year on the Feast of St. Michaels the Archangel the Fee Rent of one Shilling Sterling money for every fifty acres of land hereby Granted and so proportinably for a greater or lessor quantity. Provided that if the said Robert Morrice his heirs or assigns shall not Pay the before recorded annual Rent so that the same shall become Due of Lawfully Demanded: That then it shall and may be Lawful for me my Heir or Assigns, Proprietor, as afore said my certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents into the above granted premises to Recover and to hold the same so as if the grant had never passed Given at my office in the County of Fairfax within my said Proprietory under my name and seal. Dated this Sixth day of March in the twenty fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith in Dm. One thousand Seven hundred and fifty two.

Robert Morrice's Deed
for 63 Acres of Land Fairfax
in Frederick County


Soon after this survey, in 1754, this land in Frederick County became a part of Hampshire County, and is now in Morgan County, West Virginia. There are also records of other surveys in the area where the bordering property owner is Robert Morris. The Morris property was also just north of Henry Enochs' property. Henry Enochs' son, Enoch Enochs, married Robert Morris' daughter Rebecca.

Page 41 of "Early Records Hampshire County Virginia", compiled by Clara McCormack Sage and Laura Sage Jones, shows that on August 11, 1772, Robert Morris of Hampshire County sold his 63 acres one mile north of the Great Cacapeon River to Archibald Wigg (Wiggins?) of Hampshire County.

This is when he moved to Washington County (now Greene County), Pennsylvania, on Ten Mile Creek. We do not know too much about him after he moved to Pennsylvania, including when his date and place of death.

Children of Robert Morris are:
i. Rebecca Morris, born Abt. 1750; died Abt. 1835; married Captain Enoch Enochs; born September 29, 1750 in Frederick CO, VA (now Morgan County, WV.

More About Captain Enoch Enochs:
Title (Facts Pg): Captain Henry Howard 1695 - 1760 Henry Enochson 65 65 <1730 Susannah Friend 1670 Enoch Enochs Susannah Noah Enochs 1754 - 1779 William Ross 25 25 D. 1782 Arminella Whitesides 1669 - 1723 Edward Whitesides 54 54 Elinor Traverner 1635 - 1699 Lawrence Whitesides 64 64 John Ewing D. 1812 David Ross Killed by Indians in Pa. 1653 - 1690 James Ross 37 37 1640 Mary Goodnow 1608 Thomas Goodnow Pope indicates that Thomas came from "Shasbury," England ("Shaftesbury" in C.E. Banks's The Planters of the Commonwealth) with wife Jane, son Thomas and sister Ursula on the ship "Confidence" 11 April 1638. It's not indicated whether Ursula was sister of Thomas or of his wife, but since no different last name is listed, she was likely Ursula Goodnow, sister of Thomas. A current atlas of England does not list a town of Shasbury. There is a Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire and a Shawbury in Shropshire which may be possible alternate sites. Pope also indicates that Edmund, named as "brother" in the will of Thomas and a settler of Sudbury, who came on the same ship as Thomas, came from Dunhead, Wiltshire (also not listed in the English atlas) and that John Goodnow, the third brother, also on the ship "Confidence" and a settler at Sudbury, came from Semley, Wiltshire (listed in the atlas). Both these men were called brothers of Thomas in "The History of the Town of Marlborough."   Douglas Richardson, in "English Origins of the Goodenow Family," "The American Genealogist," Vol 52," 1976: pg. 208 has discovered the English roots of the family at Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire and concludes that Thomas was resident of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, near Donhead St. Andrew, at the time of his immigration.  Thomas Goodnow was a proprietor of Sudbury, MA in 1638 and made Freeman there in 1643. Edward and John Goodnow, also of Sudbury, were named Freeman in 1640 and 1641, respectively and are thought to have been brothers of Thomas.  Thomas was one of the petitioners for the establishment of Marlborough in 1656, was there at its incorporation and was Selectman in 1661, 1662 and 1664. His house lot was bounded on the north and west by the highway, on the south by the house lot of Joseph Rice and eastward by Indian Hill or the line of the Indian Plantation. His will, proved in 1664, names his brother Edmund and a John Ruddocke (from "The History of the Town of Marlborough," pg. 372).  Alternate year of death: 1664, per Charles Hudson, "History of the Town of Marlborough, MA," (Boston, 1862), pg. 372. D. 1666 Jane Ruddick 1570 - 1618 Thomas Goodnow 48 48 Thomas "Goodynow's" will is dated 20 Dec. 1617 and was proved 19 March 1618, the inventory having been taken 6 Feb. 1618. It can be found in the Archdeaconry Court of Sarum, Wiltshire and is published in Douglas Richardson's, "English Origins of the Goodenow Family," "The American Genealogist," Vol 52," 1976: pg. 209. He was of Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire at his death. He names Dorothy, Edmund and Ursula as his 3 youngest children, sons Simon, Nathaniel, Thomas, Ralph, John and wife Ursula. It's not known if Ursula was the mother of all his children.

The Goodenow name is found with several spellings. Thomas A. Goodenow was born about 1555 in Dunhead, St. Andrew, Wilts, England. While in England, he married Ursula Fayme (Haynes?) When he was 30 years old, he immigrated to Massachusetts with his wife, son and sister on the ship Confidence leaving London April 11, 1638. He was one of the original founders of Sudbury. Ursula Hayne 1759 Magdalene Webb 1761 Benjamin Webb 1763 John Webb Elijah Ewing 1765 Nutter Webb 1770 Comfort Webb 1772 - 1821 Zephorah Webb 49 49 1773 Susannah Webb 1775 Anne Webb 1777 Mary Webb 1778 Margaret Webb 1729 Benjamin Webb 1731 John Webb 1733 Littleton Webb Joshua Ewing 1650 Mary Samford 1534 - 1573 Alexander Webb 39 39 1561 Mary Wilson 1559 - 1629 Alexander Webb 70 70 Immigrated in 1629 to the American colony of Massachusetts.

Officer in army of King Henry VII 1538 Margaret Arden 1506 - 1556 Robert Arden 50 50 1512 - 1550 Mary Webb 38 38 1484 John Alexander Webb He was a Knight Baron and an officer of rank in the army of King Henry VIII.

Abigail married Richard Shakespeare and had a son named John Shakespeare who married Mary Arden. John & Mary had a son named William Shakespeare. 1450 John Alexander Webb Was a knight. 1425 William Webb Lord Mayor of London Moses Ewing Tuathal Tiachtmhar Joen Stone 1405 John Webb 1372 Geoffrey Webb 1350 Henry Webb 1510 Henry Alexander Webb Was a baronet

Usher at the court of Catherine Parr Grace Arden This Grace Arden is an ancestor of William Shakespeare. Df 1514 Abigail Webb Richard Shakespeare Agnes Webb 1703 - 1736 John Ewing 33 33 Robert Webb 1558 Margaret Webb 1580 - 1656 Richard Webb 76 76 1599 John Webb Christopher Webb Elizabeth Webb 1601 Henry Webb 1469 - 1546 Thomas Arden 77 77 1441 - 1502 Walter de Arden 61 61 1445 Eleanor Hampden Sarah Jenkins D. 1451 Robert de Arden 1426 Elizabeth Clodshale 1386 John Hampden 1406 Elizabeth Whalesborough 1335 - 1420 Edmund Hampden 85 85 1345 Joanna Belknap 1373 - 1420 Ralph de Arden 47 47 1375 Sibyl De Belgrave 1384 Richard De Clodshale 1404 Isabel Edgbastan 1648 - 1754 John , Sr. Ewing 106 106 1319 - 1399 Roger Belknap 80 80 1323 Sybill Dorset 1346 Henry de Arden Helena ? 1298 Ralph de Arden 1340 Isabella De Bromwich 1350 John De Clodshale 1354 Beatrix Golofre 1267 Ralph de Arden 1271 Alice Beauchamp 1664 Jennet McElvaney Anselme De Bromwich Alice 1236 - >1287 Thomas de Arden- Draiton 51 51 1240 Lucia Rose Vernon 1205 Thomas Arden 1148 - >1174 Henry De Arden 26 26 1174 William De Arden Rose Hannah Thomas Wilson 20 JAN 1704/1705 Mary Ewing Julian 1380 John Whalesborough 1384 Joan Raleigh 1300 - 1375 John De Hampden 75 75 Joan De Aylesbury 1257 - 1332 Reginald De Hampden 75 75 Nichola De Grenville 1216 - 1264 Alexander De Hampden 48 48 Marian Herdeley 1195 - 1220 Reginald De Hampden 25 25 <1711 William Ewing Agnes Burton 1170 Bartholomew De Hampden 1188 Miss De Fiennes 1148 Robert De Hampden 1150 Lora Giffard 1130 Simon De Hampden 1099 Robert De Hampden 1073 Baldwine De Hampden 1160 - 1241 William De Fiennes 81 81 1166 Agnes De Dammartin Charles Howard 1128 - 1190 Ingelram De Fines 62 62 1132 Sibyl De Boulogne 1100 John Allen De Fienes 1105 Anne De Dreux 1070 James De Fienes 1040 John Fines 1105 Pharamus 1110 Matilda 1080 William 1050 Galfrid 1719 Samuel Ewing 1020 Bustace 1135 - 1200 Aubrey Dammartin 65 65 Mathilda De Ponthieu 1110 - 1183 Aubrey Dammartin 73 73 1114 Joan Basset 1080 Aubrey De Mello Aelis De Dammartin 1050 - >1084 Gilbert De Mello 34 34 1042 - 1103 Hugues De Dammartin 61 61 Roaide Of Bulles 14 FEB 1719/1720 James Ewing 1010 - 1057 Manassess De Dammartin 47 47 1014 Constance Of France 0960 - >0992 Hildouin Of Mountdidier 32 32 0930 - >0970 Helpuin Of ARCIS- SUR-AUBE 40 40 0934 Hersinde Of ARCIS-SUR- AUBE 1108 - 1162 Renaud Of CLERMONT-EN- BEAUVAISIS 54 54 Clemence Of Bar-le-Duc 1030 - 1101 Hugh Of Clermont 71 71 1045 - 1110 Marguerite De Montdidier 65 65 1010 - >1098 Renaud De Clermont 88 88 Jannet Wilson Fiacha Fionn OLA 1010 Ermengardis De Clermont 0990 - 1060 Hugh De Creil 70 70 0970 - >1047 Renaud De Creil 77 77 0965 Baudouin Of Clermont 1021 - 1063 Hildouin IV Of Montdidier 42 42 Alice De Roucy 1000 Hildouin III Of Montdidier 0960 - >0992 Hildouin II Of Montdidier 32 32 0994 - 1033 Ebles I Of Reims 39 39 0998 Beatrice Of Hainault 1686 Alexander Ewing 0956 - 0985 Gilbert De Roucy 29 29 0931 - 15 MAR 973 Renaud De Roucy 0930 - 15 MAR 973 Alberade De Lorraine 0890 - 2 OCT 939 Gilbert De Lorraine Gerberge Of France 0860 - 0916 Rainer I De Lorraine 56 56 0830 - 0892 Giselbert Of The Moselle 62 62 0832 Ermengarde Of The Moselle 0795 - 29 SEP 855 Lothaire I Of The Holy Roman Empire Ermengarde Of Tours 1691 Jane Ewing 0778 - 20 JUN 840 Louis I Of The Holy Roman Empire Ermengarde Of Hesbaye 1743 - 1826 James Brownlee 83 83 Florence Duncan Andrew Duncan Janet 1715 - 1800 John Brownlee 85 85 Sarah Wilson Robert Wilson Rebecca 1699 Thomas Ewing Azariah Casto Family legend has it that Azariah and a brother came to American 1696, by the pirate Captain William Kidd (1645-1701),possibly coming from Wales. They are said to be Italian or Spanish, named Castillo, Castabow, or Caustilo. They hid themselves on the pirate ship. 1210 Ralph Vernon 1152 Olivia 1095 Suvardus De Ardena 1100 Cicilia 1065 Turchillus De Ardena Leverunia 1809 Michael Archer 1782 - 1851 Joseph Archer 69 69 1535 - 1592 John Goodnow 57 57 Nancy Ewing <1548 Margaret Joseph Johnson 1753 - 1839 Abigail Wright 86 86 Solomon Johnson Mary Johnson 1785 Joseph Johnson 1791 WIlliam Johnson 1725 - 1766 Garret Johnson 41 41 Judith 1669 - 1742 Rutger Jansen 73 73 Martha Ewing 1668 - 1754 Annetje Gerritts Vanderberg 86 86 Geesje Garriets Jan Straetmoder John Johnson Winifred Johnson Mary Johnson Elizabeth Johnson Christina Johnson Ann Johnson Eve Johnson Sarah Ewing 1638 - 1697 Jan Wouterzen Den Bosch 59 59 1645 - 1697 Wyntje Rutgers 52 52 1671 Benjamin Jansen 1672 Jacob Jansen 1675 Judith Jansen 1675 Jan Jansen 1680 Sara Jansen 1682 Cornelius Jansen 1684 Styntje Jansen 1688 Annetje Jansen James Ewing Wouter Den Bosch 1610 - 1654 Rutgert Wouters 44 44 1620 Styntje Jacobs 1643 Maria Wouters 1620 - 1645 Dirck Straatmaker 25 25 D. 1677 Trynetje Jacobs 1678 - 1742 Giles Mills 64 64 1685 - 1752 Sarah Hugh 67 67 1658 Hugh Nock 1662 Jane Rogers George Howard William IV Of Angouleme D. 1698 John Hollingsworth 1628 Henry Isham William Isham Mary Brett ~1240 Robert De Icham MAUGER EARL OF CORBEIL 0990 - 1035 ROBERT II `THE DEVIL' (DUKE) OF NORMANDY 45 45 D. 1027 RICHARD II 0982 - >1026 JUDITH OF BRITTANY 44 44 John Ewing 0946 - 0992 CONAN I `THE CROOKED' (COUNT\DUKE) OF BRITTANY 46 46 ERMANGARDE OF ANJOU 0920 - 0978 ROBERT DE VERMANDOIS 58 58 HERBERT I DE VERMANDOIS BERTHA DE MORVOIS D. 1040 FULK III OF ANJOU 0888 - 0938 FULK II OF ANJOU 50 50 GERBERGE DU MAINE D. 0960 ADELAIDE DE VERMANDOIS ADELAIDE DE CHALONS Joshua Stephenson Feredach Fionn- Feachtnach 28 AUG 933 - 20 NOV 996 RICHARD I DUKE OF NORMANDY GONNOR DE CREPON 0891 - 17 DEC 942 WILLIAM I (2ND DUKE OF NORMANDY) SPROTA(ADELA) DE BRETEGNE ROLLO (ROLF) RAGNVALDSSON POPPA DE VALOIS AGNS D'ANJOU BEATRICE DE VERMANDOIS GUILLIAME DE NORMANDY , COUNT OF ARQUES N.N. DE CLARE David Ewing Stephenson ~1273 ELLEN (ELEANOR) LA ZOUCHE CYRID OLAFSSON OF SWEDEN ROBERT D'EVEREUX ROGER I DE ST. SAVEUR NIGEL(NIEL) I DE ST. SAVEUR Elizabeth Knuston 1382 - 1475 Robert Isham 93 93 1351 Robert ISHAM 1329 Henry De Icham ~1290 Henry De Icham Alexander II Stephenson ~1240 Robert De Icham Julian Unknown 1401 THOMAS Bramspeth 1376 Aston Knuston 0931 - 0970 JUHEL BERENGER 39 39 Please don't ask me any questions about the people as I haven't a cluehow they got there!!! 0895 PASKWITAN II Please don't ask me any questions about the people as I haven't a cluehow they got there!!! 0900 LADY BERENGER Please don't ask me any questions about the people as I haven't a cluehow they got there!!! 1276 - 1351 WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE 74 74 HERBERT II (COUNT) OF VERMANDOIS LUITGARDE OF VERMANDOIS Elijah Stephenson ALICE (ADELAIDE ADELAIS JUDITH) DE NORMANDY WOERTA DE CREPON ~1224 WILLIAM (EUDO) LA ZOUCHE MILICENT DE CANTILUPE GEOFFREY `GRISGONELLE' ADELAIDE (ADELAIS) OF VERMANDOIS ADELE `BLANCHE' D' ANJOU ADELA (GERLOC) OF NORMANDY FREDISTINA (FREDESENDE) DE NORMANDIE PAPIA CONCUBINE Samuel Stephenson RICHARD III GODFREY DE BRIONNE BOUCHARD IV COMTE DE VENDOME BLANCHE (ALIX) OF ANJOU EMMA OF NORMANDY ARSINDE (BLANCHE) DE ANJOU JUHEL (JUDHAEL) BERENGER GEBERGA HILDEBRANTE (LIEGARD ADELA) OF NEUSTRIA GODFREY (GEOFFREY) (DUKE) OF BRITTANY George Stephenson HEDWIG `HAWISE' OF NORMANDY AGNES DE GREENE CATHERINE DE DRAYTON JOHN (SIR) DE DRAYTON PHILLIPA D' ARDERNE THOMAS DE GREENE LUCY LA ZOUCHE THOMAS DE GREENE ALICE BOTTISHAM HUGH AIMERIE THOUARS 1698 - 1780 James II Stephenson 82 82 ROGER DE MORTEMER EVE LA ZOUCHE CONSTANCE DE VERE RICHARD DE VERE BALDWIN DE VERE ELENA ~1433 ISABELLA GREENE ROBERT DE VERE 1350 ELIZABETH DE NORTHBURGH RANULF DE VERE 1770 Elizabeth Tackett ROBERT DE VERE MAUD JOHN DE GREENE ~1404 MARGARET GREEN SIR HENRY GREENE MATILDA MAUDUIT SIR HENRY GREENE SIR THOMAS MAUDIT THOMAS MAUDIT ELEANOR Lewis Tackett Jr. WARINE MAUDIT ELIZABETH DE KNOVILL ~1374 WALTER GREENE 1704 Richard Sims 1552 - 1626 SIR EUSEBY ISHAM 74 74 ANNE BORLASE 1520 - 1558 GREGORY ISHAM 38 38 ELIZABETH DALE ~1500 - 1550 MATTHEW DALE 50 50 1486 - 1546 EUSEBY ISHAM 60 60 Mary Howard ANNE PULTON ~1463 THOMAS ISHAM ~1464 ELLEN DE VERE 1402 WILLIAM ISHAM ELIZABETH Bramspeth ROBERT ISHAM ~1465 GILES PULTON ~1485 KATHERINE LOVETT THOMAS LOVETT ~1500 MARY CHAPMAN 1797 Fannie Jean Tackett Crimthann Niadh NAR WEVIA (WOERTA) DE CREPON HERBASTUS DE CREPON GORM DE GAMEL JOHN DALE MARY CLAVERING WILLIAM DALE WINTERS JOHN DALE BALDWIN * DE VERE MARGARET DE SEGRAVE Polly Tackett SIMON DE DRAYTON BALDWIN DE DRAYTON IDONEA DE GIMEEGES THOMAS GREENE ALBERT I, COUNT OF VERMANDOIS MATILDA OF NORMANDY ALFRAED AELGIFU ELFLED RALPH D' ARDERNE ELIZABETH ZOUCHE RALPH D'IVRY , COUNT OF IVRY Sam Tackett HERFAST DE CREPON JUDICAL DE RENNES LAMBERT (D'AUTUN) COUNT DE CHALONS MAUD DE CHALONS WILLIAM COUNT DE EU BEATRICE GERBERGA D'ANJOU GUNHILD OLAFSDATTER THYRA JUTLAND MAURICE ANJOU Hannah Tackett ADELA DE FRANCE HENRY COUNT DE VERMANDOIS 1195 Thomas De Icham ~1161 William De Icham ~1119 Henry De Icham 1086 Henry De Icham ~1180 Daughter De Icham 0888 - 0938 FULK II OF ANJOU 50 50 FULK I (THE RED) OF ANJOU 0778 - 20 JUN 840 LOUIS Stephen Tackett 2 APR 747 - 28 JAN 813 CHARLEMAGNE D. 0798 HILDEGARD OF SAVOY VINZGAU 0714 - 24 SEP 768 PEPIN III D. 12 JUL 783 BERTRADA (OF LAON) 0689 - 22 OCT 741 CHARLES MARTEL "THE HAMMER"KING" OF THE FRANKS D. 0724 ROTRUDE (CHROTUDE), DUCHESS AUSTRASIA CANBERT OF LAON (COUNT) ALDANE CHROTRUD OF TREVES 0631 - 16 DEC 714 PEPIN II "MAYOR OF THE PALACE" OF HERESTAL Chris Tackett 0654 ELFIDE , AUPAIS) (CHALPAIDA) 0602 - 0685 ANSEGISEL "DUKE" "MAYOR OF THE PALACE" 83 83 0613 - 0693 BEGGA "SAINT" 80 80 0582 - 16 AUG 641 ARNULF "SAINT" "BISHOP" OF METZ 0586 - 0693 CLOTHILDA "DODE" OF SAXONY 107 107 PEPIN\ CARLOMAN I OF ITALY ALPAIS HIMILTRUDE BERTRADA D. 0713 LEUTWINUS TREVES 1798 Francis Tackett COUNT WARINUSM KUNZA BERTHA MARTEL BERTHA DE FRANCE ROSCILLE DE LOCHAR INGELGAR I DE RENNES (COUNT) OF ANJOU ADELE (AELINDE) DE GATINAIS REGINA HUGH OF ST. QUENTIN PETRONILLE L' ABBE OF AUXERRE 1798 Thomas Tackett TERTULLUS DE RENNES OF GATINAS Ermengarde OF TOURS Tertullus OF THE GATINAS 0769 - 0837 Ava OF UPPER ALSACE 68 68 0807 - 0866 Adelaide DE TOURS & ALSACE 59 59 0802 - 0853 Hugh I OF BOURGES 51 51 Bava 0735 - 0802 Lutfride II OF UPPER ALSACE 67 67 Hiltrude Bertha OF TOURS 1762 - 1796 Mary 34 34 0770 - 0836 Hugh II "Le Mefiant" OF TOURS 66 66 Adele DE BOURGES Luitfride III DE ALSACE Stephen of BOURGES 0924 Adele de Anjou 0825 Geoffroy DE GATINAIS Bouchard DE GATINAIS CHARLES "THE YOUNGER", DUKE OF INGELHEIM 2 APR 742 - 28 JAN 814 CHARLEMAGNE 1  _UID FB9F0F291950D6119E874445535400017854 0758 - 0783 HILDEGARD 25 25 1  _UID FD9F0F291950D6119E874445535400017A74 1782 Thomas Bushby 0752 - 15 FEB 825 HADRIAN 1  _UID 05A00F291950D6119E874445535400018303 0735 - 0779 GEROLD I 44 44 1  _UID 0EA00F291950D6119E874445535400018C93 0736 - 0798 EMMA (IMMA) VON SWABIA 62 62 1  _UID 0FA00F291950D6119E874445535400018DA3 0719 - 24 SEP 768 PEPIN III 'THE SHORT' 1  _UID 1DA00F291950D6119E874445535400019B83 0720 - 12 JUL 783 BERTRADA II 'BROADFOOT' DE LAON 1  _UID 1FA00F291950D6119E874445535400019DA3 0735 - 0779 GEROLD I 44 44 1  _UID 27A00F291950D6119E87444553540001A523 0688 - 22 OCT 741 CHARLES 'THE HAMMER' MARTEL 1  _UID 29A00F291950D6119E87444553540001A743 0690 - 0724 ROTRUD (CHROTRUDE) 34 34 1  _UID 31A00F291950D6119E87444553540001AFC3 0690 - 0747 CARIBERT (HERBERT CAMBERT) 57 57 1  _UID 33A00F291950D6119E87444553540001B1E3 0695 BERTRADA 1  _UID 35A00F291950D6119E87444553540001B303 Louisa Woodard Living ? Living Cooper 0709 - 0788 NEBI (HNABI) 79 79 1  _UID 39A00F291950D6119E87444553540001B743 0635 - 16 DEC 714 PEPIN II 'THE FAT' 1  _UID 3BA00F291950D6119E87444553540001B963 0654 - 0705 AUPAIS (ELPHIDE CHALPAIDA) 51 51 1  _UID 3CA00F291950D6119E87444553540001BA73 0645 MARTIN DE LAON 1  _UID 3FA00F291950D6119E87444553540001BDA3 0670 - 0720 BERTRADA I (BERTHA) 50 50 1  _UID 43A00F291950D6119E87444553540001C1E3 0684 - 0727 NEBI HUOCHING (THEUBOLD 43 43 1  _UID 44A00F291950D6119E87444553540001C2F3 0685 HERSINDA 1  _UID 46A00F291950D6119E87444553540001C413 0659 - 0709 GODEFROY (GODEFRIED) 50 50 1  _UID 47A00F291950D6119E87444553540001C523 0660 Daughter Of THEODO II 1  _UID 48A00F291950D6119E87444553540001C633 0635 - 0716 THEODO II 81 81 1  _UID 4AA00F291950D6119E87444553540001C853 1783 Robert Bushby 0631 REGINTRUDE II 1  _UID 4CA00F291950D6119E87444553540001CA73 2 APR 742 - 28 JAN 814 CHARLEMAGNE 1  _UID B5A50F291950D6119E87444553540001384E 0758 - 0783 HILDEGARD 25 25 1  _UID B6A50F291950D6119E87444553540001395E 0752 - 15 FEB 825 HADRIAN 1  _UID BBA50F291950D6119E874445535400013EAE 0735 - 0779 GEROLD I 44 44 1  _UID BEA50F291950D6119E8744455354000141DE 0719 - 24 SEP 768 PEPIN III 'THE SHORT' 1  _UID C2A50F291950D6119E87444553540001451E 0735 - 0779 GEROLD I 44 44 1  _UID C4A50F291950D6119E87444553540001473E 0690 - 0724 ROTRUD (CHROTRUDE) 34 34 1  _UID C6A50F291950D6119E87444553540001495E 0690 - 0747 CARIBERT (HERBERT CAMBERT) 57 57 1  _UID C8A50F291950D6119E874445535400014B7E 0695 BERTRADA 1  _UID C9A50F291950D6119E874445535400014C8E 1785 William Bushby 0709 - 0788 NEBI (HNABI) 79 79 1  _UID CDA50F291950D6119E8744455354000150CE 0635 - 16 DEC 714 PEPIN II 'THE FAT' 1  _UID CFA50F291950D6119E8744455354000152EE 0654 - 0705 AUPAIS (ELPHIDE CHALPAIDA) 51 51 0670 - 0720 BERTRADA I (BERTHA) 50 50 1  _UID D3A50F291950D6119E87444553540001562E 0684 - 0727 NEBI HUOCHING (THEUBOLD 43 43 1  _UID D4A50F291950D6119E87444553540001573E 0685 HERSINDA 1  _UID D6A50F291950D6119E87444553540001595E 0659 - 0709 GODEFROY (GODEFRIED) 50 50 1  _UID D7A50F291950D6119E874445535400015A6E 0660 Daughter Of THEODO II 1  _UID D8A50F291950D6119E874445535400015B7E 0635 - 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0779 GEROLD I 44 44 1  _UID 16AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001A2E5 0690 - 0724 ROTRUD (CHROTRUDE) 34 34 1  _UID 18AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001A405 0690 - 0747 CARIBERT (HERBERT CAMBERT) 57 57 1  _UID 1AAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001A625 0695 BERTRADA 1  _UID 1BAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001A735 0710 GEROLD 1  _UID 1CAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001A845 D. 1285 Marguerite of Provence 0709 - 0788 NEBI (HNABI) 79 79 1  _UID 1FAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001AB75 0635 - 16 DEC 714 PEPIN II 'THE FAT' 1  _UID 21AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001AD95 0654 - 0705 AUPAIS (ELPHIDE CHALPAIDA) 51 51 0661 - 0722 LIEVEN (LIUTWIN LEUTWINUS) 61 61 1  _UID 23AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001AFB5 0661 Daughter Of CHRODOBERTUS II 1  _UID 24AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B0C5 0670 - 0720 BERTRADA I (BERTHA) 50 50 1  _UID 25AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B1D5 0684 - 0727 NEBI HUOCHING (THEUBOLD 43 43 1  _UID 26AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B2E5 0685 HERSINDA 1  _UID 28AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B405 0659 - 0709 GODEFROY (GODEFRIED) 50 50 1  _UID 29AE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B515 0660 Daughter Of THEODO II 1  _UID 2AAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B625 1245 Philip III "The Bold" France 0635 - 0716 THEODO II 81 81 1  _UID 2CAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001B845 0631 REGINTRUDE II 1  _UID 2EAE0F291950D6119E87444553540001BA65 GERBERGE DU MAINE 1  _UID CE432D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41C87C CARLOMAN I OF ITALY PEPIN 1  _UID 07442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41021B Herve COMTE DU MAINE 1  _UID 0E442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41098B Godhilde DU MAINE 1  _UID 11442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F410CBB ROGER (RODGAR) (COUNT) OF MAINE 1  _UID 13442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F410EDB ROTHILDE OF NEUSTRIA 1  _UID 16442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41110B 13 JUN 828 - 6 OCT 877 CHARLES II ,THE BALD 1  _UID 18442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41132B ERMENTRUDE 1  _UID 1B442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41165B 1215 Eleanore Plantagenet LOUIS 1  _UID 1D442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F41187B D. 19 APR 843 JUDITH OF BAVARIA 1  _UID 20442D634C60D61193CD00C04F558F411BAB 1706 Charles Sims 1708 William Sims 1710 Amy Sims 1641 Amy Symes 1642 Thomas Symes 1643 George Symes 1645 Edward Symes 1650 Mary Symes 1187 - 1226 VIII Louis 39 39 1650 Elizabeth Symes 1650 Charles Symes 1652 Henry Symes 1654 Catherine Symes 1655 Benjamin Symes 1656 Richard Symes 1660 John Symes 1581 - 1661 John Symes 80 80 John Symes matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, Feb 2, 1586: BA Jul 9, 1591; matriculated in Lincoln's Inn 1589. He was a barrister, Lincoln's Inn 1589; a Country Gentleman and Knight of Shire. A member of Parliament for Somerset 1624 and 1625; Justice of the Peace 1612- Civil War (40 years); High Sheriff for Somerset 1627. A Monument to the memory of John Symes is in the Church of Bishop Hull. It states "Greatly renowned for his wisdom, justice, integrety & sobriety. "
When war broke out he took the king's side and had to flee to Frampton Cottrell in Glouchester when Cromwell confiscated his property. After Cromwell's death, Charles II was crowned King in 1660 and the land was restored to the family. John was an old man by then and was probably too weak to return. WP 19 Dec 1661. Burial: Frampton, Cotterell, Gloucester, England. 1575 - <1658 Amy Horner 83 83 Amy Horner was from a very illustrious family. Her grandfather, Sir John Horner, was also a High Sheriff and a very powerful politician. He is also the man about whom the poem "Little Jack Horner" was written. The plum that is mentioned in the poem is an abbey/estate which he inherited. Another of her grandfathers, Alexander Popham, was the judge who presided over the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh. Alexander's wife, Jane Stradling has ties to the English Royal Family thru Richard III. Abigail Symes SeeNotes - 1253 Blanche Of Castile Baine Anne Symes Dowsabell Symes 1606 John Symes 1607 Jane Symes 1608 William Symes 1609 Henry Symes 1611 Susan Symes 1613 Elizabeth Symes 1615 Katherine Symes 1617 Amy Symes Joyce Howard 1619 Elinor Symes 1623 Dorothy Symes 1624 Edith Symes 1550 - <1597 William Symes 47 47 His will dated April 6, 1597; proved July 27, 1597 shows that William was a merchant of Poundsford, Somerset. He had manors of Barwick, Bowne, Stofoed, Somerset, Franklin and Dorset, and a manor house in Charde. Poundsford Park, owned by the Hill family, passed into the hands of the Symes family on May 18, 1581 from William's father-in-law, Robert Hill. William had a mill in West Coker and lands in Taunton. He had arms granted in 1591 (Azure, 2 scallaps, or: crest, a demi-hand, rampart and erased). His Coat of Arms was given him in 1591. 1551 - 1598 Elizabeth Hill 47 47 1573 Henry Symes 1575 Robert Symes 1577 William Symes 1579 James Symes 1580 Jane Symes Eleanore of England Lackland 1582 Alice Symes 1584 Elizabeth Symes 1586 Mary Symes 1587 Margaret Symes 1589 Margery Symes 1515 - 1564 John Symes 49 49 Reference: Barwick Papers -
John drowned in a boat. Jane Robert Hill Alice Clark Thomas Horner 1157 Richard I "The Lion Hearted" Amy Popham Edward Bridges Phillippa Speake 1652 - 1731 Johannes Kaes 79 79 Christina Schreitzer D. >1754 Rachel Housel 1811 - 1833 Wesley Mynes 22 22 1812 Mahala Mynes 1770 Andrew Mynes Andrew was a farmer. Elizabeth Brisco VII Louis D. 1809 Thomas Mynes OWNED AND OPERATED MYNES BLACKSMITH SHOP IN BUSTLEBURG, VIRGINIA.

Note: The following is Thomas 's will as copied by Kathy L. Goodbar,Deputy Clerk, Lexington Courthouse, Lexington, Va. (Misspelledwords are as they appeared in the original will)

In the name of god amen this twenty eighth day of January in theyear of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine, I Thomas Mynes ofRockbridge County and citizen of Virginia calling to mind themortality of my body knowing that is appointed for all men onceto die, do make this my Last Will and Testament in the followingmanner First, it is my will and I order that all my just debtsand funeral charges be paid and all debts owe to me be collectedby my Executors and as touching what wordly Estaste it hathpleased God to bless me with in this life I will and dispose asfollows - I give and bequeath to my well beloved sones Isaac andDavid and Andrew and Thomas one doller to each of them andThomas owes me twenty pound which I relinquce and one doller myson John Mynes I give unto my to sons in law Arthur HeaginAndrew Blain one dollar to each of them I give and bequeath tomy well beloved Samueal one dollar my bed and furnitute and bodycloths and all my books and what money will be remaining to beequally divided to each of my six natural sons I will andbequeth one hundred eacers of land that I own in the calpastureto my tow grand sons Thomas Mynes son of Andrew Mynes andSteviston Blain son of Andrew Blain - I do herby contitute andappoint my sone Sam'l Mynes and Wm Walker my Executor of this mylast Will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto setmy hand and seal the day & year above written

Signed sealed in the present of
John Stuart
Walker Stuart
John Walker

In Rockbridge Court April 4th, 1809

A writing purporting the last will & Testament of Thomas MynesDec'd was produced in Court by Sam'l Mynes one of the Executorstherin named and proved by the oath of Walker Stuart and JohnWalker two of the subscribing witnesses thereto & ordered to berecorded and the s'd Executor refused to take upon him theburthen of the Execution od s'd will and Wm Walker the othrexecutor therin named certified his refusal also to take uponhim the burhen of the excution of s'd will. Martha 1796 Thomas Mynes 1820 Mary Mynes Ruth Mynes 1803 Isaac Mynes Jane Mynes Nancy Mynes Thomas Mynes 1789 Samuel Mynes 1165 - 1223 Phillip II Augustus 57 57 David Mynes John Mynes Elizabeth Simms Mary R. Simms Susanna Simms James L. Simms George Wilson Simms John Wesley Simms Elias Simms 1784/1794 William D. Simms 1170 - 15 MAR 1189/1190 Isabella Of Hainaut 1807 Edward Simms 1807 Elkanah Simms 1435 - >1494 Ludwig Bartholomaeus Wolfhardt 59 59 1450 Ludwig Simon Wolfhardt 1465 Erhard Wolfhardt 1480 Barbara Kuhorn 1485 Hans Wolfhardt 1523 Michael Wolfhardt 1460 - 1526 Thomas Kuhorn 66 66 Studied at Tuebingen 1480; bailiff in Waiblingen 1503-1514,judge, mayor; after moving from Stuttgart was first by the name of Kuhorn in Waiblingen in 1481; burial plaque on church wall dated 1526;
exceptionally shows both the crest with the trouts and crosses and the horn with 3 stars. Margarethe Gaisberg 1099 - 1137 VIII William 38 38 Demute Kuhorn 1468 Clara Wolfhardt Kuhorn 1525 Hans Kuhorn Elisabeth Kuhorn Was a nun. Anna Kuhorn Was a non. Nikolaus Kuhorn Heinrich Kuhorn Adelheid Kuhorn Was a nun. Dorothea Kuhorn 1445 - 1503 Jakob Walther Kuhorn 58 58 1455 freed from bondage in Neuhausen; 1489 freeman of Stuttgart; 1498 mayor;
administrator for governor Thomas (his son-in-law); 1501 chief of rifle
(crossbow) brigade; donated 1501 Oelberg monument, Ludwig booklet; by
purchasing Fuerfeld property aquired right to be called Kuhorn von Fuerfeld in
1502 1125 - <1183 Peter Of France 58 58 1439 Barbara Widman 1477 Bernhard Kuhorn Margarethe Anna Kuhorn Burkhardt Kuhorn Mangold Kuhorn 1469 Jacob Kuhorn 1470 Hans Kuhorn D. <1447 Nikolaus Kuhorn 1447 made freeman of Stuttgart; 1450 councillor; 1474 member of the tribunal;
1476 mayor; 1456 sells half his farm in Osweil/Stuttgart inherited from
Michael Waldorf (Schreiber) Clara Schreiber Daughter of Michel of Waldorf a clerk in Stuttgart 1442 Hans Kuhorn <1205 Elizabeth de Courtney 1445 Nikolaus Kuhorn 1413 Hans Walter 1447 freeman of Stuttgart; 1450 city councillor; 1447 member of tribunal; 1476 mayor of Stuttgart; see details in Ludwig's Neuhausen to Fuerfeld; Agnes Kuhorn 1346 Hainz Walther lived in 1346 in Neuhausen/Fildern & Esslingen Claus Walther 1487 Conrad Walter Michel Schreiber Mangold Widman Student in Heidelberg 1420; graeflicher Scheiber in Stuttgart 1430, 1447 Adelheid Raem Hans Widman Father obtained Widemhof in 1342
Hans was Widemhofbauer (farmer) in Dagersheim near Stuttgart 1120 - 1180 VII Louis 60 60 Lughaidh Sriabh- Ndearg Maier Mangolt Maier obtained the Widemhof at Dagensheim from the Sindelfinger convent and the family then became known as Widmann Hans Widman Mangold Widman Adelheid Widman Konrad Widman Konrad Raem Barbara Hans Gaisberg Bailiff in Schorndorf 1486/88 Barbara Sattler >1619 - 1689 Neils Laarsen Friend 70 70 1140 - 1206 Alix De Champagne 66 66 1638 - 1724 Anna Andersdotter Andersen 86 86 1568 Lars Frande Anders Andersen Christina Coolbrandt Anne Scott James Whitesides Elijah Rollins William Wright Private in Colonial Army-Herman Swift's Regiment, Connecticut Line Agnes Webb Mary Arden Isabel Howard Robert Arden Mary Arden 1538 Margaret Arden John Shakespeare William Shakespeare Franklin Monroe Lewis Anna Holbert 1891 - 1982 Roy Ash 90 90 Roy Ash
Elizabeth - Roy Ash, 90, or Route 2, Elizabeth, died at Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Sunday morning following an extended illness.
He was born in Wirt County, son of the late Thomas S. Ash and Alice Gray Ash. He worked in the oil fields at an early age and until he retired in 1949, and he owned an general store from 1929 through 1976.
He is survived by his wife, Charity Nutter Ash; three sons, Harold Ash, Paul Ash and Robert Ash; three daughters, Virginia Shears, Isabel Goodwin and Emogene Dennis, all of Elizabeth; 29 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter and two sisters.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Pine Twist Baptist Church with the Rev. Billy Joe Hutchinson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call a the Mathey-Pomroy Funeral Home in Elizabeth after 2 p.m. today and at the church one hour prior to services. 1896 - 1988 Charity Ann Nutter 92 92 Harold Ash 1092 - 1143 V Fulk 51 51 Robert Ash Virginia Ash Isabel Ash Emogene Ash 1877 - 1973 William Humphrey Nutter 96 96 1875 Alice Permilia Bumgardner 1865 - 1945 Thomas Sheridan Ash 80 80 Alice Gray 1840 - 1901 David F. Bumgardner 60 60 1831 - 1912 Mary Alcinda Dacon 81 81 D. 1126 Erembourg De Main 1859 - 1936 George Washington Nutter 76 76 1856 - 1944 Annie Swisher 87 87 1915 Maribell Nutter 1912 Russell Forrest Nutter 1911 George Humphrey Nutter 1909 Orval Clifford Nutter 1907 Charles Orda Nutter 1905 Donald Owen Nutter 1903 Gladys Edna Nutter 1901 John Wesley Nutter Euphamia 1876 - 1901 Laura Etta Weaver 24 24 Roxie Rogers 1837 - 1923 James VanBuren Nutter 86 86 1843 - 1933 Mary Elizabeth Hull 90 90 Woodrow Wilson Nutter 1920 Barbara Pauline Nutter Dale Edwin Nutter 1879 Cora B. Nutter 1881 David Nutter 1882 Nancy Jannie Nutter <1103 William Beauclerc "The Aetheling" 1884 Fannie May Nutter 1887 Eva J. Nutter 1890 Lulu Nutter 1892 Mary Elizabeth Nutter 1894 Alice C. Nutter 1898 George Bruce Nutter Zelma N. Nutter 1865 Almeda J. Nutter 1867 Charles E. Nutter 1872 Louie Nutter 1071 - 10 FEB 1126/1127 VII William 1876 Laura M. Nutter 1878 Robert W. Nutter 1879 Clara Nutter 1808 - 1879 Humphrey D. Nutter 71 71 1812 - 1903 Lucetta Deem 90 90 Thomas J. Nutter Nancy B. Nutter Delila S. Nutter 1837 Artemesia Nutter 1847 Sarah Frances Nutter Maud Of Toulouse 1851 Mary L. Nutter 1855 Marcellus D. Nutter 1786 - 1857 John Nutter 71 71 1781 - 1857 Mary Mount 76 76 1804 Bathsheba Nutter 1805 James Nutter 1806 Elizabeth Nutter 1807 Sarah Nutter 1707 Matthew Nathan Nutter 1742 - 1835 Elizabeth Goodwin 93 93 1081 - 1137 VI Louis 56 56 1780 William Nutter 1785 Matthew N. Nutter 1794 Isaac Nutter 1795 Bathsheba Nutter 1796 Levi Nutter 1800 Elizabeth Nutter 1803 Thomas Nutter 1805 Magdalene Nutter 1810 Malinda Nutter 1685 - 1718 Matthew Nutter 33 33 SeeNotes Adelaid De Savoy Dervorgill 1685 - 1753 Ann Huett 68 68 1705 John Huett Nutter 1712 Rachel Nutter 1643 - 1702 Christopher Nutter 59 59 Descendants of Christopher Nutter [Hacker's Creek, WV 9508] (on disk)
"Christopher Nutter was born in 1642, according to Northampton County VA court records, probably in England, and died in Somerset County Maryland in 1702. He emigrated to Northampton County in August, 1662. He married Mary Dorman September 4, 1665. Mary was an indentured servant of John Curtis. Christopher's will was probated in Somerset County MD and was dated December 2, 1702."

Dau. of Amer. Colonists Lineage Book, Vol. #8
Christopher NUTTER (1643-1702) of Somerset Co., MD was a landed proprietor and an interpreter for Indians."

[Early Settlers of Maryland - Skordas, 1979, p 339]
This source lists two Christopher NUTTERS and indicates that a Mary was already his wife.

[Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 975.223 T635 by C.Torrence, 1935 gathered by Marlys Guildner - 960219 - West LA, CA.]
"NUTTER. Christopher NUTTER (c. 1636 or 40-1702/3), in Northampton County, Virginia, August, 1662; in Manokin section, 1665-6; lived at "Nutters Purchase," n. side Manokin River (now [1935] in part occupied by northern end of town of Princess Anne), 1666-c. 1674; removing thence to "Nutter's Neck," on Quantico Creek (now Wicomico County).
He was a government Indian interpreter, 1693 (XIV Arcv. Md., p.532).


Nutter's Fort
from Harrison County Genealogical Society Clarksburg, WV
Reprinted in The Nutter Newsletter, by Jan Alpert, July 1990

This account of the genealogy of the three Nutter brothers, (Matthew, Thomas, and John) the builders of Historic Nutter Fort, was extracted from the genealogy of the Nutter family and other sources.
The fort, sometimes called "Miles End Block House" was a stockade structure on the eastern bank of Elk Creek just beyond the corporate limits of present day Clarksburg and in the area of the now town of Nutter Fort. It lay near the road (now State Rt. 20) running between Clarksburg and Buckhannon, known as the Buckhannon Road of Pike.

The structure was built on land of the original land grant of Thomas Nutter who came to the area in 1772. The primary builders were Thomas, Matthew, and John. Christopher Nutter, a son of Thomas, also helped build the fort. Perhaps others unknown helped.

Nutter's Fort was the strongest fort within the present boundaries ofHarrison County. This structure provided protection not only to thefamilies of the immediate area but to settlers on the juncture withthe Tygart's Valley River at Fairmont, Marion County. The fort wasused by the settlers, to the south, on the Buckhannon River and on Hacker's Creek.

When the Hacker's Creek settlement was destroyed by the Indian raidsof 1779, the escaping population took refuge in this fort, where theyaided in resisting the savages and in restoring control of thecountryside to the white population. A monument, now located in front of present Roosevelt-Wilson High School places the said site of the fort.

English tradition indicates that persons named Nutter were foresters, hunters, and traders of products of the forest. Nutters were found in the early records of the settlers along the eastern sea coast.

In 1662, Christopher stated that he was 22 years of age. - Fooks Family History, by Herbert C. Fooks 5


"Received of William Smith, Feoffee in Trust to a Deed of Gift of Sarah Dorman, deceased, sheep, cattle, goods as followeth, six cows,one two years old, two yearlings, six calves, five cows of Mr. JohnC ustis, Guardian to Mary Dorman, in all 22 head of cattle, one mare,one mare colt of one year old, one mare foal, one feather bed, boulster, furniture to it. 2 pewter dishes, one basin, 5 sheep, ??received in full payment for myself and wife, Mary Dorman, orphan.

Witness my hand this 14th of March 1664/5
+392 tobacco 5 sheep, a halse ?
The mark of Christopher Nutter
Teste: John Dorman
The marke of John List

PROP: purchased 300 acres called "Nutter's Purchase" 12 OCT 1666 MD, Somerset Co. 11

PROP: sold a bay horse 3 MAY 1667 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "to Thomas Poole." 12

PROP: sold "Nutter's Delight" 30 JUL 1667 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter and wife, Mary, sold to Richard Hackworth, 150acres in Somerset County, Maryland, called 'Nutter's Delight.'Christopher recited that on 10 February 1665/6 (old calendar) a patentfor this land was granted to him." 13

PROP: sold "Killmaynhom" 30 JUN 1668 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter, and his wife, Mary, of Somerset County, Marylandconveyed to John Dorman, of the same place, 150 acres of land, at headof Manokin River, called Killmaynhom being the land patented by thegrantor October 12, 1666." 14

PROP: bought "Nelson's Choice" 29 DEC 1668 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter purchased from John Nelson and Katherine, his wife, a parcel of land in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, called Nelson's Choice, containing 300 acres." 15

PROP: patents "Nutter's Adventure" 5 DEC 1670 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher patents Nutter's Adventure on the south side of NanticokeRiver and east side of Quantico (sp?) Creek, 200 acres" 16

PROP: sold "Nutter's Purchase" 21 NOV 1672 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter and Mary, his wife, of Somerset County to CharlesBallard. Recites that on 5 August 1667, a patent issued to Christopher Nutter for a parcel of land called Nutter's Purchase, lying on the northernmost side of the head of the Manoakin River, between the lands of Owen Macrah and John Nelson....containing 300 acres. Nutter and his wife now convey to Ballard." 17

PROP: buys Morris' Lott 1675/76 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher purchases Morris' Lott on south side of Nanticoke at the head of Momonquak (Monumsco) Creek from Jenkins Morris, 100 acres." 18

PROP: buys Shield's His Choice BET 1676 AND 1702 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "land layed out for Thomas Shields' and patented by Alice Shields on Sept 21, 1676" 19

PROP: buys "Salisbury Plain" 4 SEP 1676 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher purchases 'Salisbury Plain' on the south side Nanticoke River at the Head of Manquah Creek from Isaac and Mary Noble." 19

PROP: bought "Salisbury" 10 SEP 1677 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "10 Sep 1677 Christopher Nutter, of Somerset County, Maryland, purchases a tract of land, containing 200 acres, called Salisbury on the south side of Nanticoke River in Somerset County, Maryland, from Isaac Noble and Mary, his wife, of Somerset County." 20

PROP: bought 'Dorman's Delight' BET 28 JAN 1678 AND 3 FEB 1678 MD, Wicomico Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter, of Somerset County, purchased land called'Dorman's Delight' from Thomas Purnell of Somerset County, and Sarah, his wife. Thomas Purnell recited that on 10 March 1674, a patent was granted to John Dorman, cooper, of the said county of Somerset for atract of land called Dorman's Delight lying on the Nanticoke River, on the south side of the river and on a creek of the said river, called Quantico on the east side of the creek of the said river, called Quantico. Beginning at a marked pine being a parcel of land of Christopher Nutter .....300 acres, that on ??? sold to Purnell and Now Thomas Purnell deeds to Christopher Nutter." 21

PROP: patents "Wilton" 6 NOV 1678 MD, Somerset Co. 22

PROP: patents "Attawatocoquin" 2 JUN 1682 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher patents 'Attawatocoquin' at the head of Nanticoke. NOTE: Patent obtained by William Stevens and immediately assigned to Christopher Nutter." 22

PROP: patents "Tossewondock" 2 JUN 1682 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher patents 'Tossewondock' at the head of Nanticoke River,130 acres.
NOTE: Patent obtained by William Stevens and immediately assigned to Christopher Nutter." 22

PROP: patents 'Rich Ridge' 3 JUN 1682 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher patents 'Rich Ridge' near the head of Nanticoke. NOTE:Patent obtained by William Stevens and immediately assigned to Christopher Nutter." 22

PROP: sells 'Salisbury Plain' 2 MAY 1683 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "to William Piper" 22

PROP: patents 'Nutter's Rest' 21 APR 1684 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher patents 'Nutter's Rest' in woods near head of North Branch of Nanticoke. Land was later denied by Christopher's sons." 22

PROP: patents 50 acres 18 NOV 1685 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher patents 50 acres in Nanticoke Hundred, no name." 22

PROP: assigned 1200 acres 1684 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter was assigned 1200 acres of the original Attowattocoquin (10,000 acre) tract by Colonel William Stevens, the son of Cacilius Stevens. 23

PROP: buys 'Hansell' 30 MAY 1693 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher purchases 'Hansell', 700 acres from Thomas Taylor." 24

PROP: buys 200 acres 20 JUL 1694 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter, of Somerset County, Maryland, purchased land from John Shiles, planter, of Somerset County. John Shiles recited that on November 2, 1677, a patent was granted to John Shiles for a tract of land called Shiles Choice, on the south side of Nanticoke River, on the north side of a creek of the river called Quantico...containing 200 acres." 25

PROP: bought 'Morris' Lott' 14 JUN 1699 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter, gentleman, of Somerset County, Maryland, purchased land from Jenkins Morris, Jr., tanner, of Somerset County, Maryland. Mr. Morris recited that in the year 1675 a patent wa sgranted to Jenkin Morris, Sr., the father of the within named granter, for a tract of land called Morris Lott, and that the said Jenkin Morris, Sr., at this [sic] death, left the said tract to his son, Jenkin Morris, Jr. Now Jenkin for the sum of 2450 pounds of tobacco, Morris Lott containing 100 acres, and situated on the south side ofNanticoke River, at the head of Mamumquah (Marumsco?) is sold to Christopher Nutter." 26

Event: Living 1674 Nutter's Neck, Quantico Creek, Somerset Co., MD 5
Will: 2 DEC 1702 MD, Somerset Co. 5
Will: 1702/3 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher wills 'Tossewondock' to son, Charles." 27

Event: charged in court Misc 2 AUG 1662 VA, Northampton Co. 28

Event: stated his age as 22 Misc NOV 1662
Note: "in a deposition concerning a Thomas Letherberry, stated his age as about 22 years" 5

Event: entered himself and his wife Misc 4 SEP 1665 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter entered himself and his wife, Mary, into SomersetCounty, Maryland." 5

Event: registered his cattle mark Misc 4 JUN 1666 MD, Somerset Co. 29

Event: defendant in lawsuit Misc 29 APR 1667 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter was listed as defendant in lawsuit over a colt..." 30

Event: sppeared in court Misc 28 MAY 1667 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter again appeared in court in Somerset County, Maryland, being ordered to deliver a mare colt to Richard Britain." 30

Event: subject of a lawsuit Misc 18 JUL 1667 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Richard Britain brings another lawsuit against Christopher Nutter for 3000 pounds of tobacco." 30

Event: ordered to deliver a colt Misc 30 JUL 1667 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter ordered to deliver a colt within 3 months to Richard Britain." 5

Event: filed suit Misc 11 MAR 1668 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter filed suit against Richard Britain" 30

Event: suit heard Misc 30 JUN 1668 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher's suit against Richard Britain heard." 30

Event: registered his cattle mark Misc 14 SEP 1670 MD, Somerset Co. 31

Event: his house designated as a "preaching station" Misc MAR 1671/72 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher's house at Nutter's Purchase was designated as a 'preaching station' by the Somerset Grand Jury" 32

Event: in Maryland court regarding the runaways Misc 14 AUG 1672 MD, Somerset Co. 5

Event: registered his cattle mark Misc 12 SEP 1676 MD, Somerset Co. 5

Event: approved for payment Misc 26 OCT 1686 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter was approved for payment of 2000 pounds of tobacco under an 'Act for the Payment and Assessment of the Publique Charge of this Province' passed by the Lower House of the General Assembly of Maryland. Apparently this payment was questioned, and on page 204 of the same volume is recorded a statement by a member of the House, as follows: 'who was Interpreter in that General and National of the Indians and the services he has done the public therein; this House are sensible that the 2000 pounds of tobacco will not reimburse the said Nutter the one moioty of the expense and charge the said Nutter has been at if no consideration were allowed for his service and loss of time. Wherefore this House and the service he has done the public therein; this House are sensible that the said 2000 pounds of tobacco will not allow for his service and loss of time. Wherefore this House are of the opinion that the said Nutter ought in honor and conscience to be allowed at least 9000 of tobacco." 33

Event: allowed 4000 pounds of tobacco Misc 8 DEC 1686 MD, Somerset Co.
Note: "Christopher Nutter was allowed 4000 pounds of tobacco and liberty to make out his further claim at the next Assembly." 34

Event: Moved 1655 Princess Anne, Somerset Co., MD
Note: "to a farm near Princess Anne, ... 5

Event: Moved 1663 MD 35
Event: government Indian interpreter Appointed 1693 36 1651 Mary L. Dorman 1667 John Nutter 1669 Sarah Nutter 1670 John Nutter 1672 Mary Nutter 1674 Sarah Nutter Constance 1676 Christopher Nutter 1680 Charles Nutter 1681 Thomas Nutter 1683 Christopher Nutter 1687 William Nutter D. >1665 John Dorman Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
John Dorman is given in the above source as paying for transportation ofthe following persons:

Adwick, James, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Adwick, Grace, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Amolihan, Roger, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Cornelies Mary, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Dorman, Sarah, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Dorman, John, 1648, by Tho. Broughton, ÙvÙv Co.
Haies, Elizabeth, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Haies, Ann, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Hickman, Wm., 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Higgenson, Ellinor, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Holliday, Eliza, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Murkead, James, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Overton, Mary, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Pickfizzell, Giles, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Toole, John, 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co.
Young, Tho., 1655, by John Dorman, Northampton Co. 1600 - 1658 Sarah Hickman 58 58 1640 - 1698 John Huett 58 58 John was an Anglican Minister.

1689 Wicomico County, Maryland "Polehambleton"
Patetented on 21 May 1689 by John Huitt for 300 acres on the south arm of the Wicomico River "Old Somerset on Eastern Shore of Maryland" Torrences p. 524 Rev. John Huett (1640-1698) m. Rachel Battian and had

(1) Ann Huett m. Mathew Nutter (d. 1720) of Somerset; m. 2nd Alexander Leckey (Lecky,Leakie) of Somerset
(2) Susanna Huett m. Joseph Johnson (of Charles County, Maryland.1731 Wicomico County, Maryland "South Wales"

Patented on 16 May by John Huett for 200 acres Rent Rolls 1666-1723 disclaimed by heirs apparent and Capt. Nicholas Evans who married Huetts Widow

Rev. John Huett, Jr. came to America with part of the monies his stepmother received from Charles II of England for compensation for the beheading of his father by Oliver Cromwell when John was 17 yrs old. He returned to England and received his Doctorate then returned to Maryland where he was a prominent minister and missionary.

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bio. JHN was the respected anglican minister for Old Somerset Co MD, Stepney Parish. Rev John Huett was the son of Rev. Dr. John Huett the elder, who was beheaded by the Oliver Cromwell Protectorate in the Tower of London in 6/1658, for esposing the restoration of the
monarchy. His father JH 1st is described in Antonia Frazier's book
"Cromwell, the Lord Protector." The name is spelled Huet, Huitt,
Hughette, Hewett. JHN 2d inherited some of the lands owned by his
great grandfather in South Wales. He appears to have gone back to
England to live in the 1740s and to have died in London in 1750. Per
David Nutter. bio. b abt 1640. d. 1698 Contention Plantation, Somerset Co MD. John Huett came to VA in 1663. He came to Somerset Co MD about 1680/81, and was the only Church of England minister there. see Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of MD, by Clayton Torrence, p. 140-155, 348-349, 520-524. per Dennis Nicklaus.

http://www.gencircles.com/users/lparren47/2/data
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On Feb 19, 1661 he was granted an annuity for 100lbs per year. served as the resident clergyman for the church of England. In 1663 he was taken to VA by Capt Adam Thorogood, but returned to England to study his "Holy Order." He retuened to Somerset Co, MD in 1682 as a Deacon, and then again back to England where he became a priest. He at last spent the est of his life in Somerset Co, MD.

http://www.gencircles.com/users/clindzy/1/data/8642 1660 - 1726 Rachel Battian 66 66 1692 Susannah Huett D. 1159 IV Theobald 1614 - 1658 John Huett 43 43 Written by David G. NUTTER and donated to the Somerset County MD USGenWeb Project, this fascinating article is about Rev. Dr. John HUETT, the father of Rev. John HUETT of Somerset County , Maryland. Thanks, David, for this riveting glimpse at history!

The Last Days of John Huett by David G. Nutter
In researching the history of the Nutters who are the descendants of Christopher (about 1637- 1702/3) and Mary [Dorman] Nutter (1651- before 1703) of Somerset County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, it becomes necessary to research the history of the Huett (spelled in a whole variety of ways) family also. This is because the surname Huett has been used as a given name in several branches of the Nutter family for as long as two hundred years. For instance, in my branch of the Nutter family, my father was named George Huitt Nutter; my great-grandfather Huitt Harshall Nutter; my three-times great grandfather Hewit Nutter. As it turns out, we are not descendants of the Huetts described below, but rather the name came through the Matthew Nutter branch of the family, and subsequently passed into other branches because as a gesture of respect, gratitude etc. It is almost certain that in later generations the name was passed on simply as a family tradition, not with any knowledge of the history given below.

I thought that whatever the circumstances surrounding the passing on of this name, it must have had powerful roots to have lasted so long. The following bears that out.

If you are just about anyone interested in the linkages between early American and 17th century English history, you will probably be interested in the story of the Dr. John Huett the Elder and his dramatic death in the waning days of the English Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell . If you are a descendant of Matthew, the third son of Christopher and Mary [Dorman] Nutter of colonial Maryland, and his wife, Ann [Huett] Nutter, later Leckie, you will probably be even more interested, because you are a descendant of this Dr. John Huett, whose life, and more specifically, whose death, is described below.

By 1657, this Rev. Dr. John Huett, the father of the Rev. John Huett of Somerset County, Mary land, had become a leading Anglican minister in London. He was 43 years old. His son John was 17 years old. Dr. Huett was now the Dean of St. Gregory's-by-St. Paul's, a church which would burn to the ground eight years later in the Great Fire of London. Dr. Huett was indisputably a leader of the Church of England. He and his second wife, Dame Mary Huett, herself of a noble family, traveled in high social circles. But London, and all of England, was in a strange ferment. The Church of England was on the defensive. It was not viewed as within the definition of the "true reformed Protestant Christian Religion" as adopted by the Puritan-led Roundheads. But the 16 year-old experiment in democracy without a monarch, founded on the English Civil War and the later execution of King Charles I, was crumbling. The "Protectorate", as the government of the Commonwealth was now called, was nervous, and with good reason. Charles Stuart, son of King Charles I, who would become Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was quite alive and healthy and in exile in France, planning if possible his return. The Royalist side, long quiescent in its defeat, was beginning to find new courage to defy the increasingly dictatorial regime which had replaced the kingship.

In what follows I have used "Huett" for the spelling of this elusive name wherever the name is mentioned outside of quoted material. According to Clayton Torrence in "Old Somerset on th e Eastern Shore", this is the spelling used by John Huett the younger himself in signing a Maryland will in 1686. The various sources I have used, listed below, all use different spellings and, inside of quoted material, I used the spelling given by the author. There appears to be no limit on different ways to spell this name. It simply defies spelling. Nonetheless, these are the same persons and the same family.

Our old friend Clayton Torrence gives us his usual excellent genealogical sketch of the two John Huetts, from the point of view of the John the younger, on pages 520 and 521 of "Old Some rset on the Eastern Shore". Torrence says:
"Reverend John Huett, of Somerset, was not less distinguished in his birth than in his life . Born circa 1640, John Huett was the eldest son of the Reverend John Huett (born September , 1614; died June 8, 1658), of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Doctor of Divinity of Oxford ; minister of St. Gregory's by St. Paul's, London; a royalist divine; published devotional works; said to have harbored Ormond in 1658 when that nobleman went into England under disguise to obtain intelligence as to the chances for an uprising in behalf of Charles Stuart - later to come to the throne as Charles II. Huett, involved in this royalist plot, though interceded for by Mrs. Claypoole (Oliver Cromwell's daughter Elisabeth), was finally beheaded in June , 1658. The Reverend John Huett (1614-1658) [Note: John Huett the elder was born in Eccles, Lancashire, today a northwest suburb of Manchester, England] married, first, Miss Skinner,
daughter of Robert Skinner, a merchant-tailor of London; second, Mary, daughter of Bertie, 1st E arl of Lindsay. The father of John Huett (the elder) (1614-1658) was Thomas Huett, a merchant -tailor of London. [Important note: Please do not read "tailor" to mean a person who sews on buttons - they mean an important person in the textile trade; just as we should be careful in the distinction between "servant" and "ward of a guardian" in the case of Mary Dorman] . The eldest son of the Reverend John Huett (1614-1658) and his first wife, Miss Skinner, was John Huett (born circa 1640), who was granted, February 19, 1661, an annuity of 100 pounds on account on his father's beheading. This eldest son, John Huett (born circa 1640), has been identified as the Reverend John Huett, of Somerset County . . ."

The Reverend John Huett of Somerset County, in turn, had a daughter, the Anne Huett mentioned above, who married Matthew Nutter in Stepney Parish, Somerset County, Maryland. Anne Huett was the grandaughter of John Huett the Elder of London. She and Matthew Nutter had several children, including John Huett Nutter, who with his son Huett Nutter would return to London in the 1740's. It may well be that this sojourn in England may be connected to John Huett Nutter's inheritance of lands in South Wales formerly owned by his great-grandfather, John Huett the Elder, and passed down to his mother Ann [Huett] Nutter Leckie, and then to him.

In 1657 the people of England were beginning to feel the need for a monarch again. The Roundheads had beheaded King Charles I in the bitter cold of January, 1649. They say he met his end with dignity, the only concession to the severity of the weather being his wearing of two shirts. The great English poet Andrew Marvell, who like John Milton was a Roundhead, and who may have been there that day, later paid tribute to the King's courage in a poem intended to celebrate the greatness of Oliver Cromwell:

"Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spite
To vindicate his helpless Right
But bow'd his comely Head
Down as upon a Bed"

"I go from a corruptible crown to an incorruptible crown", Charles told his chaplain on the scaffold, "where no disturbance can be . . . " and, said, as his last word, "Remember". Moments after he stepped to the block the black-hooded executioner held up the bloody, severed head and cried out what they always cried out at such executions for treason: "Behold the head o f a traitor!" It was said that instead of the customary cheer, "a fearful groan" came up from the crowd.

In December of the year 1657, in an event which shows as dramatically as anything ever could that the days of the English "Rebellion" (as English history has since characterized it) were numbered, Antonia Fraser tells us in "Cromwell: The Lord Protector" that "the known Anglican Dr. Hewett" officiated at the wedding of Cromwell's daughter Mary to Lord Fauconberg, and that he used the Book of Common Prayer in a classic Anglican service, exactly the kind of service that had been rejected by the Cromwellians since 1642. Things were indeed confused. Personal and official levels were colliding in strange ways. It appears that Cromwell was trying to compromise but he had refused the kingship when it had been offered, and the English people wanted a king.

Then, in May of 1658, some forty alleged Royalist conspirators were arrested by the Protectorate. Dr. Hewett was among the most prominent two or three members of this group. They were to be tried by the Protectorate's new High Court for Justice, designed to root out emerging Royalist, restorationist sentiment. Fraser says that "Hewett, 'born a gentleman and bred a scholar', had been attracting great crowds preaching since the (English Civil) war at the church of St. Gregory". Others say that the Reverend asked his parishioners to pray with him for an "absent friend". Fraser says that the "conspiracy" does not appear to have been a serious threat to the Protectorate, judging at least by the ease with which the 40 were arrested. One of the most famous of these 40 was Sir Henry Slingsby, a solid Royalist and the kind of man who abhorred compromise. He stuck to his principles, clearly saying that he wished for the restoration. Both Hewett and Slingsby protested against the illegalities of the new High Court, under which they had no right to counsel and no jury. They used the same protest that
Charles I had used ten years before. But John Lisle, the President of the Court, one of Oliver Cromwell's most trusted associates, told them: ". . . this is the Grand Jury, the Petty Jury, and your Judge". Alderman William Ireton, who like Lisle had been one of the "Regicides" who had signed the order of execution for Charles I, also was present on the Court. Huett and Slingsby, the two accused, were sentenced to death and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Clarendon in his classic "History of the Rebellion", described John Huett and his situation a s follows:

First, he describes Dr. Huett as
" . . . an eminent preacher in London, and very orthodox, to whose church those of the king' s party frequently resorted, and few but those." His ". . . greatest crime was collecting and sending money to the king, besides having given money to some officers." "Dr. Hewett was born a gentleman, and bred a scholar, and was a divine before the beginning of the troubles. He lved in Oxford, and in the army, till the end of the war, and continued afterwards to preach with great applause in a little church in London; where, by the affection of the parish, he was admitted, since he was enough known to be notoriously under the brand of malignity. When the lord Falconbridge married Cromwell's daughter (who had used secretly to frequent his church) after the ceremony of the time, he was made choice to marry them according to the order of the church; which engaged both that lord And lady to use their utmost credit with the protector to preserve his life; but he was inexorable, and desirous that the churchmen, upon whom he looked as his mortal enemies, should see what they were to trust to, if they stood in need of his mercy. It was believed that, if he had pleaded, he might have been quitted, since in truth he never had been with the king at Cologne or Burges; with which he was charged in his impeachment; and they had blood enough in their power to pour out; for, besides two other (described by Clarendon previously), to whom they granted the favour to be beheaded, there were three others, colomel Ashton, Stacy and Betteley, condemned by the same court; who were treated with more severity; and were hanged, drawn and quartered, and with the utmost rigour, in several great streets in the city, to make the deeper impression upon the people, the two last being citizens. But all men appeared so nauseated with blood, and so tired with the adominable spectacles, that Cromwell though it best to pardon the rest who were condemned, or rather to reprieve them."

In that year, the famous "weather" of England was playing its tricks. On June 2, 1658, John Evelyn, a Royalist whose Diary is an English literature classic and who was a member of the same circle as Dr. Hewitt and his friend Dr. Wilde, of Oxford, wrote:

"June 2, 1658. An extraordinary storm of hail and rain, the season as cold as winter, the wind northerly near six months."

It would be cold in the Tower of London and even colder on Tower Hill.

And then on Wednesday, June 3rd, a thing occurred which went down in all the histories as an omen, an ominous event to the people of the time, a portent for the nation, whatever it might mean. John Evelyn writes:

"June 3, 1658. A large whale was taken betwitxt my land abutting on the Thames and Greenwich , which drew an infinite concourse to see it, by water, horse, coach, and on foot, from London, and all parts. It appeared first below Greenwich at low water, for at high water it would have destroyed all the boats, but lying now in shallow water encompassed with boats, after a long conflict, it was killed with a harping iron, struck in the head, out of which spouted blood and water by two tunnels; and, after a horrid groan, it ran quite on shore, and died . Its length was fifty-eight feet, height sixteen; black-skinned, like coach-leather; very small eyes, great tail, only two small fins, a peaked snout, and a mouth so wide, that divers men might have stood upright in it; no teeth, but sucked the slime only as through a grate of that bone which we call whale-bone; the throat yet so narrow, as would not have admitted the least of fishes. The extremes of the cetaceous bones hang downwards from the upper jaw, and are hairy towards the ends and bottom within side: all of it prodigious; but in nothing more wonderful than that an animal of so great a bulk should be nourished only by the slime through those grates."

People argued about what the strange incident of the doomed "Leviathan" meant. The Protector' s fall? Dissolution of the State? Some great turning of events? A twist of nature?

Meanwhile, John Huett was in the Tower awaiting his execution. We have two extraordinary documents which he wrote in the 24 hours before his death. We know that the famous Oxford theologian and Church of England official Dr. Wilde visited him in the prison, the same Dr. Wilde to whom John Huett gave a gold ring inscribed with the words: "Herod necuit Johannem", "Herod killed John". During the early morning hours of June 7 the condemned man then wrote the following letter to his good friend Dr. Wilde, who had visited him:


"Dr. Hewit's
LETTER
To Dr. Wilde on Monday, June 7, 1658. Being the day before he suffered Death, and read by Dr . Wilde at his FUNERALL.

Dearest Brother,

I Have no cause to think that you have not at any time taken me along with you in the daily walk upon your knees to Heaven, but I beseech you and all my Brethren to be(now especially) very mindfull to call upon God for me. The more company I go withal, the more welcm I shall be made. I should be loath either to leave out of my Creed, or to be left out of the benefit of the Communion of saints. Two are better than one. Two or three have the advantage of a Promise; but to go with a multitude to the House of God, where all commers are welcome, is to be assured before-hand of good entertainment. Admission will hardly be denyed to any, for whom there is good importunity of many: If the gate be shut, much knocking will open it; or if that would not do it, united Forces would offer an Holy violence. Many will prevail, where one alone can do but little good. Woe unto him that is alone.

Therefore dear Brother, sith(?) it is the infirmity of our nature, that we live not without the occasions of giving and taking of offence. And 'tis the corruption of our nature that the offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in Marble. If you know, or shall heare of any one either of my Brethren, or other persons whom by any act of scandall I have tempted, or provoked, or lessened or disturbed, to exclude me the beneftis of their charitable prayers or witness I beseech you beg of them from me, fo me, their pardon. And let not any private wild-fire or passion put out the holy flames of a fiffusive charity: And as for my selfe, I doe here protest before God that I doe heartily desire to forget the injuries of whosoever has trespassed against me, either by word or deed. And if god should have been pleased to have granted a longer life, I would not refuse, (yea I am stedfastly resolved t o sollicite terms of reconciliation with them that have done me the wrong) And if my owne heart doe not deceive me, I would give my life to save the soule of any of my Christian Brethren , and would be content to want some degrees of glory in Heaven, so that my very greatest Enemies might be happy as to have some. The God of Mercy shed forth his Bowels for them that shed my blood, and the blood of Christ save, & the Spirit of Christ sanctifie, and support him who desires to live no longer then to honour the Father, Son, and holy Ghost, and both living and dying craves yours, and the prayers of the whole Church for her unworthy Child, and

Dearest Brother
Your most affectionate Friend,
Brother and Servant
John Hewit

Tower, June 7. 1658 Morning 7 a Clock."

Then, sometime between that morning and the time of his execution on the following day, Tuesday, June 8, 1658, he penned the following poem, writing from his heart:

"Certain
CONSIDERATIONS
Against the Vanities of this World, and The terrors of Death

Written by Doctor John Hewit, and delivered to a Friend, a little before his death on Tower H ill, June the 8, 1658

Go Pale-fac'd Paper, tell the World that I,
Do die in Peace and perfect Charity.
Why should Man fear to die alas, when he
That lives on earth is ne're from trouble free?
Here's perfect rest, and where else can we rest,
Is not a mans own house, to sleep in bed;
If this be all our House, they are to blame,
That boast of the great houses whence they came,
And ever more their speech thus interlace,
I, and my Fathers house, alas! Alas!
What is my Fathers House, and what am I?
My Father's House is earth, where I must lie:
And I a worm, I crawle into my Tomb;
This is my dwelling, this is my truest home,
A House of Clay, best fits a Guest of Lome:
Nay t'is my House, for I perceive I have
In all my life ne're dwelt out of my grave;
The womb was first my grave, whence since I rose
My Body (Grave-like) doth my soul incase:
The Body, like a Corps with sheets ore spred,
Dying each night, lies buried in our bed,
And when my days vain toyl, my soul hather waeried,
I, in my Body, Bed, and House, lie buried,
Then have I little cause to fear my Tomb,
When this, wherein I live, my Graves become,
Here I can sleep secure, here let the Tempest rore,
The worlds proud waves can dash on me no more,
I am at home, and safe, what ever comes,
Let them fight on, I cannot hear their Drums,
Let those I always lov'd, me love, or hate,
It cannot grieve me, though they prove ingrate,
Yea, let them praise, or rail, I lie aloof
Out of their reach, my sleep is Cannon-proof,
And we but sleep, for as we close our eyes,
Each night we go to bed, in hope to rise:
So do we die, for when the Trump doth blow,
We shall as be ??? awake we know:
And as we after sleep, our bodies find
More fresh in strength, and cheerfully inclin'd,
So after death, our flesh (here dead and dry'd)
Shall rise Immortal. new, and purifi'd:
If this be true, my Friends, pray make more hast,
Tis time to sleep, day fails, night draws on fast:
I must go home; for, as the evening Sun
Looking me in the face, when day is done,
Makes me cast long my shadow: So when death
Stares in my face, threatens, and claims my breath,
I cast his shadow long off from my sight,
Yet truly know thereby, 'tis almost night,
And when night comes, in dark, and frowning skies,
What man will not go home, if he be wise:
Here let him come, this house's of such fashion,
The Tenant nere shall pay for Reparation.
Here can the rain not wet me, cold not harm me,
Here no Sun, no weather over-warm me.
From hence He finds (when 'tother he is gone)
A private walk to heaven, to God alone.
This is my Port, this is thus perfect cure,
Till my Grave covers me, I am nere sure:
Then farewell World, thou Author of anoys,
And welcom heav'n, the sum of all my Joys,
What though too soon, a forced death I die,
'Twill force me live with God eternally?
My Faith, I hope, by most is understood
To gain redemption by my Saviours blood,
Which in my soul, I do so highly prize,
I pray, it Ransom all my enemies,
Which freely (for my death) I have forgiven,
As I do hope this day to be in heav'n.
Lay not my blood unto their charge, but bless
This Land with Peace and lasting Happiness.

Welcome keen AXE thou dost no Coward try,
But cut'st my way unto Eternity.

So let thy Servant depart in Peace, for mine
eyes have seen thy salvation.

FINIS


So with much Constancy, and Resolution, he being Guarded to the Scaffold on Tower-Hill: After a short Exhortation, Prayers, and some other Speeches to his Friends, he willingly yielded himself to the stroke of the Executioner, who at one blow, severed his Head from his Body.
LONDON, Printed by Edward Crowch dwelling Snow hill, in the year of our Lord, 1658. (Mark)"


(Source: Photostats received from the Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University)

When he writes in the poem "Tis time to sleep, day fails, night draws on fast", it suggests that he was absorbed in writing this poem, losing track of time and laboring on into the hours of darkness.

In his Diary entry for the day of the execution, John Evelyn wrote:

"June 8, 1658. That excellent preacher and holy man, Dr. Hewer, was martyred for having intelligence with his Majesty (Charles II), through the Lord Marquis of Ormond."

Again, from John Evelyn's Diary:

"September 3, 1658. Died that arch-rebel, Oliver Cromwell, called Protector."

And on September 22nd, Evelyn reported on his experience upon attending the Lord Protector' s "superb funeral", with "Oliver lying in effigy, in royal robes, and crowned with a crown, sceptre, and globe, like a king . . . but it was the joyfullest funeral I ever saw; for there were none that cried but dogs, which the soldiers hooted away with a barbarous noise, drink ing and taking tobacco in the streets as they went."

And on Christmas day of that year:

"A wonderful and sudden change in the face of the public; the new Protector, Richard (Cromwel l, Oliver's son), slighted; several pretenders and parties strive for the government: all anarchy and confusion; lord have mercy on us!"

And on May 29th, 1659:

"The nation was now in extreme confusion and unsettled, between the Armies and the Sectaries (note: "Sectaries" are, basically, the Puritans, members of "non-conformist" sects), the poor Church of England breathing as it were her last; so sad a face of things had overspread us ."

11th October 1659 "The Army now turned out the Parliament. We had now no government in the nation; all in confusion; no magistrate either owned or pretended, but the soldiers, and they not agreed. God Almighty have mercy on, and settle us!"

7th November 1659. "Was published my bold 'Apology for the King' in this time of danger, when it was capital (punishment) to speak or write in favour of him. It was twice printed; so universally it took."

And then, that great Roundhead army leader, General Monk, Oliver Cromwell's military right hand, returned to London, as though to prove that in times of civil chaos, all armies do the same thing. And this great general of the dead Cromwell, reacting to the chaos, used his troops to break down the gates of London, restore the old Rump (pre-Cromwellian) Parliament, and begin the restoration of the monarchy. In May of 1660, the General led his troops out again through the gates of London to the quay at Dover , where he bowed before his monarch, King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, and escorted his royal entourage back to the capitol.

In 1660, Dame Mary Huett, John's widow, submitted to Parliament the following Petition:

"To the Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House now assembled in
PARLIAMENT
The humble Petition of Dame Mary Hewytt widow, late wife of John Hewytt, Doctor in Divinity Humbly Sheweth,
That Oliver late pretended Protector thirsting after Innocent Blood, did, in May 1658: by the Advice of his Council, contrary to the known fundamental Lawes of the Land (whereto every f ree-born English-man hath an inherent Birth-right, and according to which Laws the said Blood y Tyrannical pretended Protector at his Installment swore to Governe the three Kingdomes) erect a High Court of Justice (or rather Injustice) to try several persons for supposed Crimes a gainst the said pretended Protector, whereof he appointed John Lisle Esq; President.

That your Petitioners late husband, Doctor John Hewytt, being in jurre (?) next following convened before the said Court, was by the said John Lisle and divers others that sate with him accused of Treason without Presentment or Indictment, and contrary to the Tenor of the Commission (granted them) authorizing them to proceed according to justice, which hath always been interpreted according to the known Laws.

That your Petitioners said husband protesting his Innocency to the death, humbly desiring to be tryed by God and his Countrey, offered to plead to any such Indictment as the Judges of the Land (who were also Commisioners in the said Commission, but refused to act) should declare to be Legall, or according to any Act of Parliament

And therefore appealed to their Judgement, who he, being an English-man, was otherwise bound plead, there being no Act at that time in being, to constitute any High Court of Justice to try any man otherwise than by the ancient known Laws.

That all the judges refusing to sit and joyn in any such proceeding; The said John Lisle did , notwithstanding, without Jury or Witness produced, sentence your Petitioners said husband to death, and caused him to be Executed as a Traytor upon Tower-Hill, To the unspeakable grief , and irreparable losse of your desolate Petitioner and her fatherlesse children, and in the consequence of it, to the subversion of all Law, Justice and Liberty.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prayeth your Honours (out of an inflamed zeal to public Just ice, Law, and the people's Liberties) and for the future to deterre others from the like horrid, bloody, arbitrary and detestable proceedings, as the effusion of innocent Christian Blood , which cries aloud for vengeance to order that the said John Lisle may be speedily brought to exemplar Justice, and that he may be (as a Murtherer) excepted from pardon in the Act of O blivion; and that the other Commissioners who sate and acted with him, (to wit) Alderman Tick bone, Alderman Ireton, Alderman Park, Sergeant Crook, John Barkstead and John Phelpes, and the rest may be ordered to give her such due reparations for her damage sustained by the Execution of her said husband as your Honours shall conceive fir. And your Petitioner shall ever Pray."

In response to this, the new government awarded the Dame and her fatherless children an annual stipend of 100 pounds, part of which provided the Rev. John Huett the Younger with a head start in America some three years later. Torrence tells us that the young John Huett ". . . was transported to Virginia in 1663 by Captain Adam Thorogood, afterwards returning to England , (where he) studied for 'holy orders', was ordained deacon, came to Somerset County in Maryl and, and returning to England again, was ordained priest by the Bishop of London in 1682, coming again to Somerset, where he remained during the rest of his life". In 1665 London experienced first the Plague, and then a Great Fire which consumed St. Gregory's Church and half of the developed City.

Thus ended the life of Dr. John Huett the Elder and, in a remarkably close if countervailing fit with it, the entire English Revolution. 1620 ? Skinner 1590 Thomas Huett Robert Thomas Skinner 1748 - 1833 Humphrey Mount 85 85 Prudence James Deem Rachel Sargent Adam Deem Tradition, seemingly authentic, gives the Deem family as English, migrating to Ireland and Scotland very shortly after the Conquest of William the Conqueror, and later to the New World long before the Revolution of the Colonies agains Great Britain. But the first connected and authenticated accont of the family begins with Adam Deem, Sr., who was born in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1757 and who served with honor in the Continental Army during the revolution and was honorably discharged. This same Adam Deem removed form the place of his birth to Pennsylvania in his early manhood, and then to Ritchie County, West Virginia where he spent his later years on what is now known as the "Deem Homestead" just across from the mouth of Goose Creek, where he died in 1861 at the age of 104 years. He was the father of seven sons and five daughters. The sons were named Adam (2), Phillip, John, James, David, Isaac, and Jacob, all of whom married and raised large families.

Adam Deem served for about six months in Capt. Stokeley's Company of Co. Broadhead's 8th Penn. Regiment during 1777. He applied for a pension in January of 1833 for that service during the War for Independence. Stating that he had been a resident of Wood County, Virginia for the past thirty years. His application implies that he was born about 1761 in Maryland. His name was dropped from the annuitant roles in 1835. 1761 - <1850 Catherine Foughty 89 89 Catherine Howard 1731 Johannes Adam Diehm Johannes Adam Diehm, arrived on the Ship "Patience" Sept. 19th, 1749.

Will of Johannes Diehm (John Deem);

In the name of God, Amen. I John Deem of Fayette County Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania German being weak in body and in perfect mind and
memory thanks be given to almighty God, calling to mind the mortality
of my body knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die. I do
make and ordain this may last will and testament, that is to say
principally and first I give and recommend my soul into the hand of
almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be
buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors.
Nothing doubting again by the mighty power of God to receive the same
(---) and as touching such worldly estate as God has pleased to bless
me with in this life. I give, demise, and dispose of the same in
manner and form following. After all my charges and lawful debts and
contracts are discharged all my real and personal estate to be equally divided amongst my beloved children, namely, Lewis, Mark, John, Adam and Jacob as also Catharina and Margaret. After a discount of those indebted to the estate the balance being counted the residue of their legacy only and those not indebted are to draw equal shares with them indebted considering the debt to be a part of the (---) only those contracts being heretofore made must be fulfilled. Concerning the land that I sold to Mark & George provided they fulfill their contract for both which there is an article specifying the contracts.

Furthermore I make, constitute and ordain John Sallady & Ab--- Merritt to be my executors, ratifying and confirming this to be my will and testament and do hereby revoke and discard all and every other will and testament confirming this the (---). In witness whereof I have here with set my hand and seal this Thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven in the presence of...

Phillip (Weholes)
Robert (Baird)
Adam (Parker)
Signed - Johannes Diehm 1741 Jeremiah Sargent Armanilla Enoch Henry Enoch Sarah 1824 - 1905 Jacob Swisher 80 80 1827 - 1909 Elizabeth Jane Fluharty 81 81 1852 Milly Jane Swisher 1855 Sally Swisher 1860 Archibald J. Swisher D. 1161 Matilda 1861 Henry Swisher 1863 James H. Swisher 1865 Jacob S. Swisher 1867 Elizabeth Jane Swisher 1871 Amanda Swisher 1874 Elzy Swisher Jacob Swisher Drusilla Morgan 1803 Henry Fluharty 1795 - 1858 Sarah Eddy 63 63 Henry de Champagne 1866 Lucinda Bumgardner 1613 Matthew Nutter 1618 Ann Wilkinson 1612 John Nutter Anne Inghame Matthew Goodwin Ann 1728 - 1760 Nesbit Mount 32 32 Apr 7, 1755: Humphrey Mount, of Perth Amboy, deeded land to Nesbit Mount for a nominal fee. This land adjoined his own, this tract of land was purchased by Humphrey in 1751 from Robert Lettis Hooper. Jun 25, 1757:

Nesbit Mount made his will which was proven, Apr 4, 1760. In his will, he refers to his home as in Cranbury and to "...my children, males and females not yet 20, (he did not name them) ... " His wife and John Tomson to be executors. 1723 Mary Hay <1699 - >1761 Humphrey Mount 62 62 Humphrey Mount died after Aug 20, 1761, the date of a deposition for a land deed in Perth Amboy, NJ. 1715: Humphrey Mount was listed as a
private on the Muster Rolls.

Jan 25, 1723: Richard Mount, Sr., of Middlesex County, NJ and Rebecca, his wife, conveyed to Humphrey Mount, yeoman, 200 acres on the south side of Cranberry Creek, adjoining Richard Mount, Jr., for 200 pounds.

1751: Humphrey Mount bought land from Robert Lettis Hooper, which he sold to Nesbit Mount, his son, Apr 7, 1755, for 50 pounds, and acknowledged the same Aug 20, 1761, when he called himself of Perth Amboy. V Theobald Anne Nesbit 1665 - 1763 Richard Mount 98 98 He resided in Middletown and moved to Cranbury with his family about 1711.

It has been said that this move was over an argument with the elders of the Baptist Church in Middletown, but whatever the reason, he associated with the Presbyterian Church in Cranbury after this date.
Richard Mount married prior to 1687, Rebecca Wall, as appears in the court records of that date, at Freehold, New Jersey. Garret Wall, brother, gave evidence concerning the mare that he gave his sister, Rebecca, wife of Richard Mount. She was the daughter of Walter and Anne (...) Wall.

Walter Wall and his family came to Middletown from Gravesend, Long Island, and took up town lot No. 4. He was a Baptist, being one of the original members of the First Baptist Church at Middletown, New Jersey.

New Jersey Post-Revolutionary Documents 1787 March 15. Mount, Richard of Nottingham Township, Burlington Co.

August 8, 1694: Richard Mount recorded his cattlemark in Middletown.

Mar 17, 1703: Middletown Deed Book I, page 342: Richard Mount as heir of George Mount, to Richard Marsh, 8-9 acres at Poplar Field. This was part of the George Mount patent of 20 June 1677, lying next to land formerly owned by John Throckmorton.

Mar 28, 1703: Richard Mount of Middletown, was referred to as son and
heir to George Mount, now deceased. He made his mark to documents rather than a signature. Mar 13, 1710: Richard Mount sold land to Eden "Burroues" of Jamaica, Long Island, New York. Eden Burroughs had a wife, Rachel, who may have been a daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Wall) Mount.

Jun 5, 1710, Deed Book B2, page 422: 500 plus 40 acres from John Harrison in Cranbury lying between Cranbury Brook and Millstone Brook, next to Thomas Morford. This same deed was recorded again in Deed Book C2, page 516, Feb 19, 1719. On the back of the second deed is an addendum:

Richard Mount made a deed to Joseph Dennis for 200 acres of this parcel for 5 schillings.

Mar 12, 1711, Deed Book B2, page 421: Richard Mount of Middlesex County, yeoman, conveyed "...to my son, Richard Mount, Jr. of the same place, 200 acres at Cranbury, adjoining Thomas Morford and bounded on the west by land intended for my son, George Mount and his wife, Rebecca.

Mar 3, 1717, Deed Book C2, page 475: Richard Mount and Rachel, his wife, made a conveyance to Joseph Dennis, Cooper for 200 acres (See Deed Book C2, page 516, Feb 19, 1719, addendum on reverse side). Jan 5, 1723, Deed Book F2, page 274 (recorded 10 Jul 1744): Richard Mount, Sr., of Middlesex County and Rebecca, his wife, conveyed to Humphrey Mount, yeoman, 200 acres on the south side of Cranbury Brook adjoining his brother, Richard Mount, Jr.'s land for 200 pounds, witnessed by Matthias Mount, who acknowledged the deed, May 15, 1774, and Joseph Britton, Matthias Mount was his son, while Joseph Britton was his son-in-law. Rebecca Wall 1626 - 1705 George Mount 79 79 George Mount was the founder of the Mount family of Monmouth County New Jersey. He came to the area from Rhode Island about 1672. It is believed that he arrived in America at Salem in the Colony of Massachusetts about 1650. At what time he removed to Rhode Island is not known, but it may have been very soon after his advent in America. Since the establishment of the Baptist Colony in Rhode Island by Roger Williams, many of the settlers in the Bay Colony removed there to avoid the undue hardship associated with non belief in the religious rule of the Puritans. In addition to the outcast status of the non believer, it became quite dangerous as evidenced by the Witch Trials a few years later. The majority of the women burned for witchcraft were of religious beliefs other than that of the Puritans.

Those who moved to Rhode Island soon became aware that as liberal as he was in religious beliefs, Roger Williams was a Civil Dictator. Thus it is of no surprise to find the name of George Mount among those of the "Association:

which was formed in the late 1660's in Rhode Island to purchase land from the Indians on the Monmouth Tract in New Jersey. This tract was part of the land ceeded to the English by the Dutch in the settlement of the English-Dutch War which ended in 1664. At this date the Duke of York granted the province of New Jersey to two English Officers. One, Lord Berkeley, was an Army Officer while the other, Sir George Carteret, was a Naval Officer. In the establishment of
rules for settlement, one rule which brought more settlers to the Jersey Colony than any other was that of complete religious freedom.

In 1672 Geore Mount's name was connected in joint land purchases with that of Benjamin Borden, son of Matthew Borden of Hedgecorn Parish in Kent County England, the next parish over to the west from that of Boughton Aluph Parish where the Mount family was well established in the 1500's. In Boughton Aluph Parish a Richard Mount married Joan Owre and their son George Mount was born in 1626/27. Again in 1676 George Mount and Benjamin Bordon purchased joint tracts of land in West Jersey at Cohancey. Because of this close association between
the two, many have thought that the wife of George Mount was either a Borden or closely related to the Bordens. There is however no evidence to support this theory.

30 Dec 1667: George Mount received town lot No. 10 and outlying lot No. 19, in the first division of land in Middletown.

22 Apr 1668: George Mount ws one of the two Deputies chosen to the General Assembly to be held in Portland Point. He was chosen again 20 Jul 1669. In addition, he was Town Overseer as well as surveyor and Juryman. In deeds, he was referred to as a blacksmith. Such an occupation made him one of the most valuable men in the Colony, as the cost of metal goods made in Europe shipped to America was prohibitive.

1668: George Mount as one of the Constituent Members of the Baptist Church of Middletown, the first in New Jersey.

20 Jun 1672: Middletown Deed Book 1, page 17: (Patent): 284 acres from the Proprietors of New Jersey, in Middletown.

George Mount and Benjamin Borden again purchased joint tracks of land next to each other at Cohancey, West Jersey.

27 Feb 1677: Salem Co. Deed Book B, page 14 (Surveyed 23 Oct 1677) 500 acres from John Fenwick in "Cohansick" (sic. Cohansey). The yearly rent was one peppercorn.

8 Nov 1684: Salem Co, Deed Book 2, page 150: George and Katherine Mount sold the 500 acres at Cohansey, to John Throckmorton, their Middletown neighbor.

This land was referred to as marshey and swampy, lying between Mounts Creek and the Cohancey River.

30 Jul 1686: Monmouth Co. Deed Book A, page 350: 100 acres in Middletown, from Proprietors of East New Jersey. This deed is again recorded in Book B, page 30 on 15 DFec 1686. The land is described as 100 acres, lying near the Naversink River and adjoining that of Safety Grover.

13 Apr 1698: George Mount conveyed 185 acres of land in Middletown to his son, Richard Mount. Since his son, Richard, is not mentioned to recieve anything in the will of George Mount, his father, in 1702, it is believed that this gift cut him off as an heir-at-law.

14 Feb 1702: George Mount made his will which was proven 31 Aug 1705 (Will Book 1, page 208; Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, New Jersey. His will, found in Vol 11, page 43 of unrecorded wills, mentions his wife, Katherine; daughter, Katherine; and grandsons, Matthias and Thomas, sons of his deceased son, Matthias Mount (to recieve land on the Naversink River) as well as his son Richard. 1626 Katherine Borden 1588 - 1639 Richard Mount 50 50 1590 - 1631 Joan Owre 41 41 1560 - 1625 Gregory Mount 65 65 1562 - 1599 Tomsyme Blackborne 37 37 1619 - 1702 Walter Garnet Wall 83 83 Walter came from Wiltshire, Eng., to America, 1635-1640. He was transported to St. Christopher's at age 16, 1635. He migrated with an association arranged by Lady Deborah Moody, widow of a Wiltshire Baronett, to Lynn, MA. In 1643 they moved to Gravesend, Long Island, Nj, and to Middletown, NJ in 1657. Walter Wall purchased a large tract of land near Middletown, which became known as Wall's Mill, and later Van Meter's Mill.

Walter with a number of others settled on Long Island where they founded the town of Gravesend, and where they remained for 20 or more years. About 1665 he and a number of his townsmen came to East Jersey where they purchased from the proprietors a large body of land, embracing a part of the present counties of Monmouth and Middlesex, NJ. Walter was a man of prominence in this community. It is noted that this colony fairly and honorably purchased lands from Indians, each settler paying his proportion.

Walter was said to have married three times. Annetje _____ his first wife.

In 1666-1667 he came to Middletown, NJ; in 1677, he came to Shrewsbury, NJ. Stephen 1628 Annetje 1595 - 1645 Walter Wall 50 50 1600 - 1650 Ann Long 50 50 1600 Benjamin Borden Anna Christina Bruenig Marx Bruenig 1746 Phillip Foughty Catherine Hoffman 1756 Catherine 1746 - 1825 Stephen Fluharty 79 79 He and his three brothers were orphaned. No record of their parents has yet been found. Stephen gave the incorrect information about his age on his pension papers which had him born in 1746. He was actually probably born in 1753/1754.

Stephen Fluharty enlisted in the year 1775, in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by Captain George Stricker, of the First Maryland Regiment, commanded by Colonel Smallwood, for the term of the war. That he continued to serve in said corps, or in the service of the United States until the close of the war, when he was discharged from the service at Annapolis, in the State of Maryland, in the year 1782. That he was at the battles of Long Island, White
Plains, Trenton, Princetown, Germantown, Monmouth, Camden, Guilford, Eutaw Springs, Cowpens, and at the Seige of 96. William Mary Snodgrass 1769 - 1859 Alexander Eddy 90 90 1767 - 1855 Margaret Kuhn 87 87 1721 - 1781 Gavin Eddy 60 60 1680 - 1741 John Eddy 61 61 1682 Elizabeth Edwards 1650 - 1719 James Edwards 69 69 1658 Allison Neell 1730 - 1785 Sarah Cotheal 55 55 William Cotheal Adela 1626 John Neil 1630 Jean Gibsone 1601 John Neil 1603 Janet Langwill 1603 David Gibsone Isabelle Grinelaw 1574 Thomas Gibsone 1581 Janet Johnestone 1830 Isaiah Ash 1836 - 1866 Mary Jane Alexander 30 30 1043 - 1109 IV Fulk 66 66 Breas Nar- Lothan 1789 Conrad Ash 1800 - <1850 Elizabeth Marsh 50 50 1744 - 1819 Johann Adam Esch 75 75 1749 Maria Catherine Jost 1703 - 1782 Johannes Heinrich Matthias Esch 79 79 1707 Ana Maria Kroh 1675 Johann Theis Esch 1680 - 1734 Maria Juliana Zimmer 54 54 1650 Wilhelm Esch Hans Georg Zimmer Bertrade de Montfort Anna Sibilla Weis Hans Zimmer Diederich Weis 1683 Johann Wilhelm Kroh 1683 Ana Catharina Reuter 1643 - 1735 Johann Christoffel Kroh 92 92 1658 Maria Johanna Hautzel D. 1682 Johannes Kroh Johannes Hautzel Johann Wilhelm Reuter 1056 William II "Rufus" D. 1684 Walpurgis 1749 - 1820 Johan Pieter Jost 71 71 1770 Elijah Marsh Alathia Hurst James Alexander Jane Bennett Hurst Eleanor 1696 John Hurst Mary Fincks 1062 - 1137 Adela Of Normandy 75 75 1567 John Inghame Anne Watmoughe D. 1600 William Inghame Ann Hirste Thomas Huett Agnes 1817 Adam Bumgardner 1821 Elizabeth Devers 1780 - 1850/1860 Adam Bumgardner Mary Gibson Margaret Howard 1745 - 1819 Balthesar Bumgardner 74 74 Mary Magdalene 1695 Heinrich Bumgardner Came to America on 8/30/1743 on the ship Elizabeth. 1723 Mary Balzer David Gibson 1660 - 1716 Heinrich Bumgardner 56 56 Anna 1631 - 1681 Hans Bumgardner 50 50 1633 Margaretha Meier 1598 - 1647 Jacob Baumgardner 49 49 Rebecca Dowden 1600 - 1634 Barbara Widmer 34 34 Jacob Bolzer 1799 - 1863 William B. Woodard 64 64 1798 - 1900 Henrietta Jenkins 102 102 Henrietta Woodard, age 102 past, died Saturday, May 28, 1900, near Culloden and was buried near Hurricane at McCallister cemetery.
- Cabell Record, Milton, W. Va., Thursday, May 3, 1900, pg.1 1766 William Jenkins 1771 - 1859 Rachel Brandon 88 88 1742 - 1818 Abraham Jenkins 76 76 1746 Sarah 1738 - 1804 Francis Brandon 66 66 Francis' stepmother kidnapped Francis from England and brought him to this country. 1745 Mary Asher 1054 Robert II Curthose 1720 - 1798 John Asher 78 78 Nellie 1661 John Asher Mary 1745 Jonas Jenkins Jonas Jenkins 1679 John Asher Susanna John Asher Jeremiah Jefferson Jeremiah was listed in the 1790 Census in Fairfax County Head ofF amily and also 1882 Fairfax County, Va, listed as having 9 whites and 0 blacks. 1055 Richard Beauclerc William Bushby 1570 - <1645 Benjamin Chapman 75 75 Ann Parkinson 1540 William Chapman John Howard He was an Admiral of the King's Navy. Alice De- Boys D. 1331 John Howard Joan De Cornwall D. <1308 William Howard Alice Ufford Cecelia John Howard Lucy Germund Robert Howard Hereward Wilburga Hereward Hereward "The Banished" Of Mercia 0974 - 1057 Leofric Hereward 83 83 0980 - 1067 Godiva Of Coventry 87 87 John Germund Adeliza D. >1280 Richard De Cornwall 1209 - 1272 Richard De Cornwall 63 63 Created Earl of Poictiers in 1225, Elected King of the Romans and of Almaine Jeanne De Valletort ~1049 - 1107 Maud de Montgomery 58 58 Wulgram III , Count of Angouleme ~1066 Sybil de Montgomery ~1068 Marguerite de Turenne 1089 - 1160 Wulgrim II , Count of Angouleme 71 71 D. 1178 William IV , Count of Angouleme ~0979 Gererge d'Anjou 1066 Constance 1700 - 1779 John Sires 79 79 Ponce de Montgomery D. 1118 William , Count of Angouleme Vitapoy de Benauges Amanjeu de Benauges D. ~1089 Fulk , Count of Angouleme Condole Vagena Ounorman Vagena ~1014 - 1048 Geoffrey I , Count of Angouleme 34 34 ~1000 - >1048 Petronille d'Archiac 48 48 ~1058 - 1123 Roger de Montgomery 65 65 1067 Adela ~1062 - 1116 Adelmode de la Marche 54 54 ~1005 - 1094 Roger II de Montgomery , Earl of Shrewbury 89 89 Alberic III , Count de la Marche ~1034 Ponce ~0970 Mainard "le Riche" , Sire d'Archiac ~0970 Hildegarde ~0978 - 1023 Guillaume II , Count of Angouleme 45 45 ~1048 - 1060/1078 William "Talvas" , Seigneur de Belleme and Alencon ~0985 Hildeburge ~0955 Arnulf Agatha Beauclerc ~0970 - ~1048 William de Belleme 78 78 ~0970 Mathilde ~0975 - <1056 Roger I de Montgomery 81 81 Hugues de Montgomery Josceline de Pontaudemer Lucia de la Marche ~0980 - 1047 Bernard I , Count de la Haute Marche 67 67 ~1022 - 1075 Adelmode de la Haute Marche 53 53 ~0980 - 1053/1058 Amelie d'Aulnay ~1054 - 1131 Robert II , 3rd Earl of Salisbury 77 77 Matilda Beauclerc ~1026 - 1079 Mabel Talvas d'Alencon 53 53 ~1088 - >1149 Avise de Lancaster 61 61 Arnulph de Montgomery ~0996 - ~1026 Warin de Domfront 30 30 ~0975 Joscline ~0945 Senfrie 0978 - >1068 Humberge de Angouleme 90 90 ~0943 Cadelon V , Viscount of Aulnay ~0930 - Abt 1030/1033 Cadelon IV , Vicomte of Aulnay ~0950 - 0997 Adalbert I , Count de la Haute Marche 47 47 Edgar ~0950 - 1007/1011 Almode of Limoges D. 1218 Aymer de Valence , Count of Angouleme Alexander John Howard David SeeNotes Guy Geoffrey Audiard SeeNotes - 1093 IV William Fionn Emma De Mortain 1053 - 1108 I Phillip 55 55 1055 - 1094 Bertha of Holland 39 39 SeeNotes - 1101 Stephan of Blois 1100 Steven Henry Theobald Henry Howard D. 1046 Count of the Gati Aubri 1689 - 3 JAN 1746/1747 Catherine Garton 1030 Adelaide Benla SeeNotes Robert 0986 - 1032 Constance of Provence 46 46 1690 - 1745 William Vanderford 55 55 Agatha of Hungary 1027 II Robert SeeNotes Arlette Fulbert 1024 - >1075 Anne of Kiev 51 51 Robert Howard 1006 - 1060 I Henry 54 54 Hugh Magnus Fionnlogh SeeNotes - 1040 III Fulk D. 1040 Hildeguard III Richard D. 1248 Maud Marshall 1011 Robert the Old 0989 - 1016 Edmund "Ironside" 27 27 Ealgyth Elizabeth Simms Margaret Howard D. 10 FEB 1049/1050 Ingeborg Roigen Ruadh D. 21 JUL 987 Geoffrey I Grisgonelle SeeNotes Adelaid De Vermendois 0941 - 24 OCT 996 Hugh Capet Maugher de Corbeil Robert of Evereaux Richard Simms 0945 Adelaid of Poitou Esme of Emma 0968 - 1016 II Aethelred 48 48 Ethelred was another brother of Ethelbald, ruling from 866 to 871. He was the third son of Ethelwulf to wear the mantle of kingship. Catherine Howard Assaman Eamhna Finaua SeeNotes Emma 1016 - 1058 I Casimir 42 42 >1011 Dobroniega SeeNotes - 0994 Olaf Skotkonung SeeNotes Sigrid (Sigrith) Storrada SeeNotes II Fulk Gerberga Of The Gatinais 0920 - 0968 Robert 48 48 Adelaid Giselbert 0895 - 16 JUN 956 Hugh Magnus Ennius Aigneach Edmund Howard SeeNotes - >0965 Hedwig 0943 - 0975 Edgar "The Peaceful" 32 32 0945 - 1000 Elfrida Ordgar 55 55 SeeNotes Mieszko 0880 - 0943 II Herbert 63 63 Liegarde of France 0920 I Albert 1687 - >1716 Amy Thomas 29 29 D. >0931 Beatrix of Vermandois 1928 - 1961 Mary Frances Cooper 32 32 0876 - 2 JUL 936 I Henry 1870 Thomas Paris Sowards Gaberga of Saxony 0920 - 0946 Edmund the Magnificent 26 26 D. 0961 St. Alfgifu 0840 - 0902 Herbert I De Vermandois 62 62 SeeNotes Bertha De Morvois SeeNotes Aelis Mary Simms 0875 Edward the Elder Well-trained by Alfred, his son Edward 'the Elder' (reigned 899-924) was a bold soldier who defeated the Danes in Northumbria at Tettenhall in 910 and was acknowledged by the Viking kingdom of York. The kings of Strathclyde and the Scots submitted to Edward in 921. By military success and patient planning, Edward spread English influence and control. Much of this was due to his alliance with his formidable sister Aethelflaed, who was married to the ruler of Mercia and seems to have governed that kingdom after her husband's death.

Edward was able to establish an administration for the kingdom of England, whilst obtaining the allegiance of Danes, Scots and Britons. Edward died in 924, and he was buried in the New Minster which he had had completed at Winchester. Edward was twice married, but it is possible that his eldest son Athelstan was the son of a mistress. Living ? D. 0961 Eadgifu Sigehelm 1792 Nancy Simms Margaret Plaitz Pepin De Senslis de Vermandois 0788 Eystein Glumra 0990 - 1060 III Pons 70 70 SeeNotes Ealhswith (Alswitha) Aethelred Alfthryth Elder William Wall 1796 Jesse Simms Aeneas Turmeach Teamhrach 1792 Elizabeth Simms D. 0858 Aethelwulf Osburh Margaret Howard Ethelred Dux Hnabi 0775 - >0838 King Egbert 63 63 As King of Wessex, Egbert inherited the mantle of 'bretwalda' - an Anglo-Saxon term meaning a ruler with overall superiority to other rulers - after the decline of Mercian power under Offa. He came to power in 802 and died in 839, but little else is known about his brief reign. Readbuhr 1600 - 1689 Catalyntie Jeronimus Trico 89 89 Houchling Eochaidh Aihtheathan D. 3 OCT 818 Ermengarde Judith Of Bavaria SeeNotes Eahlmund 1770 Matthew Samples Elizabeth Strange Living Salmons D. 0718 Inguild 1573 Jeronimus Jan Trico 1537 Victor Honorius Jannsen SeeNotes Cutha Mary SeeNotes - 0584 Cuthwine <0560 - 0593 Caewlin 33 33 1621 Annetje Rapalje 1625 Sarah Jorise Rapalje 1669 Elizabeth Innes Hugh Innes Thomas de Mowbray John Mitchell Obedience Clay Bartley Clay Oliollus Cassfiaclagh Tabitha Clay Ezekiel Clay Elizabeth Anne Belcher Isham Belcher Anne Belcher Richard Belcher Eleanor Hendricks John de Mowbray 1774 Sarah Odell 1764 John Odell Connla Caemh Martha Odell 1768 Lott Odell 1766 Richard Odell 1700 John Beall 1699 Nathaniel Beall JAN 1709/1710 James Beall 1717 Robert Beall 1719 Joseph Beall Isabel de Mowbray 1722 Zephaninah Beall Irero 1637 William Beall 1649 Alexander Beall 18 MAR 1654/1655 Andrew Beall 1590 - >1653 William Beall 63 63 William Beall 1813 John Odell 1814 Benjamin Odell Henry Odell 1762 John Odell William de Montagu Melghe Molbthach Josina Richard Odell 1768 Lott Odell 1774 Caleb Odell 1782 William Odell 1784 Elizabeth Odell 1786 Mary Odell 1705 Reginald Odell 1682 John Peerce Thomas Graves Katherine Crosher Cobhthach Cael Breagh Robert Goushill 1628 John Gordon Sprigg 1628 Sarah Sprigg 1644 Joanne Sprigg 1634 Abraham Sprigg 1640 Katherine Sprigg 1585 George Griffin 1675 - 1735 John Chapman 60 60 1688 Margaret Mankin 1642 - >1708 Thomas Chapman 66 66 Hugonius Magnus >1641 - 1695 Elizabeth Craxton 54 54 Elizabeth Goushill 1619 - bet 1652/1661 Thomas Chapman 1590 - bet 1640/1645 Thomas Chapman 1592 Ann 1622 Ann Chapman 1670 Thomas Chapman 1679 Richard Chapman 1680 Jonathon Chapman 1693 Mary Chapman Eochaidh Buadhach 1659 - 1698 Stephen Mankin 39 39 , Born: abt. 1660, Port Tobacco, MD. Our ancestor, established a 65 acre plantation called "Mankin's Adventure" on 24 March 1687 in Charles County, Maryland near Port Tobacco. This was a trapezoid-shaped parcel exactly at the headwaters of Ware Creek and was a submanor of St. Thomas Manor owned by the Jesuits who are still there today. The original indenture, or grant deed from Sir Charles Calvert to Stephen Mankin still exists in the library at Georgetown University. On another indenture associated with the property, his wax seal (a Scottish lion rampant) is still quite clear and so is his signature. He left the land in the care of his son, who sold it in 1729. Stephen signed a tobacco warrant in 1685 which has been photographed from Annapolis archives and shown in the October 1980 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

In 1682 is recorded the first notation of his name: The birth record of "Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Mary Mankin of Port Tobacco" June 22, 1682.(4) Stephen Mankin married about 1681 to MARY BARKER, daughter of John Barker.(5) In 1694 their twin children, HOPE and JAMES, are entered as children of "Stephen and Mary Mankin" of the "head of Wiccocomico River" (Wicomico River). However, all other entries in the birth records refer to them as being "of Port Tobacco". This seems to have been their regular residence. On March 24, 1687, there was surveyed for Stephen Mankin his tract of 65 acres called "Mankin's Adventure".(6)
Stephen Mankin died 1698, and an Inventory of his estate was filed July 22, 1698.(7) In a deposition made 1701, Mary, wife of James Stigalier gives her age as 40 years, thus giving her a birth year of 1661. (8) She died 1714. After the death of her husband Stephen Mankin (1698) Mary Barker Mankin married (2nd) Thomas Howard (9), who died shortly after; and (3rd) James Stigalier (1701).(10) By husband James Stigalier, she had JANE STIGALIER, born in Port Tobacco, June 4, 1702, recorded in Charles County Birth Records as "Jane, daughter of James & Mary Stigalier of Port Tobacco". 1661 - 1714 Mary Barker 53 53 Joan Goushill James Stigalier Thomas Howard 1630 John Barker 1633 George Mankin GEORGE MANKIN(1), was the first known Mankin to cross the Atlantic and settle in Charles County, Maryland. He probably arrived in 1650 as a companion to the household of Thomas Brooke(2), gentleman, whose father John Brooke had outfitted a ship. John Brooke became known later as a fiery Roundhead, yet his sons were, through marriage, relatives of Lord Cecil Calvert. George is first mentioned by author Gust Skordas in his book, "Early Maryland Indentures" that George Mankin was first recorded in 1666 as having been one of several persons brought over and claimed by Major Thomas Brooke as entitled to receive 50 acres of land for each person whose travel expenses he had paid in the interest of expanding and encouraging the growth of the colony. This was called the headright system of receiving land. George Mankin is listed as one of those whose passage had been paid.
Maryland had been granted to the 1st Lord Baltimore, Sir George Calvert, but settled by his brother Leonard Calvert (2nd Lord Baltimore)in 1634, arriving in two ships The Ark and The Dove. By 1650, the colony was a haven for Catholics and Quakers seeking refuge from religious intolerance in England, and now was under the proprietorship of Lord Cecil Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore. Some Catholics, Quakers, and members of the Church of England came as refugees from the Ulster Uprising of 1641, where James 1 st had granted plantations in Ulster in northern Ireland. Many like the Mankin relatives, Calvert and Robinson families, had attempted to settle there from Yorkshire, were in the military service in Ireland, and fled their Irish plantations in this failed plan of dominating northern Ireland.
No record of the exact place of origin of George Mankin has been discovered, although the Lords of Baltimore lived in Yorkshire halfway between Durham and York at "Kiplin Hall" at Bolton-on-Swale near Richmond and Ripon and where the parish records show several Mankin families lived, and which we have discussed earlier in looking at possible origins of the Mankin family who came to America. We know that the Maryland Dent family, as well as the Quaker leader John Calvert, both came from Guisborough, Yorkshire. It appears that Richard Mankin of Fort Christiana, DE, a probable son listed below, was related to major Quaker leaders, Valentine Hollingsworth and John Calvert, both friends of William Penn, and that Edward Mankin, merchant of Philadelphia, witnessed the will of William Howell, who had purchased a manor house at Ashford, Derbyshire, from John Wood and Sir George Wood, the latter a Knight and Justice of the Peace. We assume that if George came from Yorkshire, perhaps he came from the Mankin family of Stainton, Yorkshire, or Great Smeaton, not far from Guisborough, Yorkshire or he could have been from Ashford, Derbyshire (now called Ashford-on-the-Water, Derbyshire). Irish "Mangin" and Welch or even Dutch or Swedish origins are also possibilities. I do not believe in the Scottish origin of the Mankin family at this time, because (1) Capt. Michael Mankin, mentioned below, would not likely ship his own countrymen into indentured servitude, (2) the name "Mankin" is common in Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and noted in Derbyshire, and not found in Scotland before 1800, and (3)the Quaker relatives Calvert, Robinson, Wilkinson, Dent, and Stone are all Yorkshire origintating families. 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She and her mother sailed to Scotland to escape from the king who had conquered their land. King Malcolm of Scotland welcomed them and fell in love with the beautiful princess. Margaret and Malcolm were married before too long.
As Queen, Margaret changed her husband and the country for the better. Malcolm was good, but he and his court were very rough. When he saw how wise his beloved wife was, he listened to her good advice. She softened his temper and led him to practice great virtue. She made the court beautiful and civilized. Soon all the princes had better manners, and the ladies copied her purity and devotion. The king and queen gave wonderful example to everyone by the way they prayed together and fed crowds of poor people with their own hands. They seemed to have only one desire: to make everyone happy and good.
Margaret was a blessing for all the people of Scotland. Before she came, there was great ignorance and many bad habits among them. Margaret worked hard to obtain good teachers, to correct the evil practices, and to have new churches built. She loved to make these churches beautiful for God's glory, and she embroidered the priest's vestments herself.
God sent this holy Queen six sons and two daughters. She loved them dearly and raised them well. The youngest boy became St. David. But Margaret had sorrows, too. In her last illness, she learned that both her husband and her son, Edward, had been killed in battle. Yet she prayed: "I thank You, Almighty God, for sending me so great a sorrow to purify me from my sins."
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    Isabella was the mother of sons Henry III King of England, Richard Earl of Cornwall and daughters Joanna (betrothed to Hugh "le Brun" de Lusignan) and Isabella. Isabella accompanied John wherever he went during his troubled reign (a slight understatement don't you think). Isabella was at Gloucester when news of John's death reached her (1216) - her 9yo son Henry was proclaimed King of England and crowned. Isabella did not participate in her son's regency - she left for Angouleme and married the still unwed Hugh "le Brun" de Lusignan, Count de la Marche (1216). The English refused, however, to pay her the revenues due her as Queen Mother and demanded the young Princess Joanna back as a proposed bride for the Scottish King. Isabella bore Hugh de Lusignan five sons and four daughters (prior to Sept. 1244). On the French political front, Isabella was said to be the instigator in plot to poison King Louis IX of France. Not waiting to see the outcome, Isabella fled to the Abbey of Fontervault, where she took refuge. Isabella died two years later, and by her own request, was buried in an open cemetary at Fontervault. Hugh de Lusignan died three years later on crusade in the Holy Land. Isabella's son King Henry III of England moved her body inside the church to lie alongside Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard I. 1133 - 1189 II Henry 56 56 1685 - 1750 Thomas Petty 65 65 1113 - 1151 Geoffrey V Plantagenet 38 38 Matilda 1070 - 1135 I Henry 65 65 Guy Beauchamp 1079 - 1118 Matilda Of Scotland 39 39 1027 - 1087 William 60 60 Matilda Of Flanders Ealliott Baldwin V De Lille Adelaide George W. Simms Constance Of Arles 1807 Edward L. Simms John Wesley Simms 0895 - 0965 Hugh Magnus 70 70 John Beaumont Hedwig Of Saxony 0876 - 0936 I Henry 60 60 Nuadha D. 1716 William Simms Beatrix De Vermandois 1665 Elenor Hollingsworth Beatrice Of Morvois 1799 Sarah Simms Zachariah Wall 1802 Thomas Simms 0776 - 8 JUL 810 Pepin John de Vere 1801 - 1865 Phoebe Chapman 64 64 Lawrence Cheney Fergus mor Macearca Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.